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Book SynopsisThis 2001 book examines the ways in which books were produced, read and received during the reign of King James I. It combines historical analysis of documents with literary reading of censored texts and will be an invaluable resource for literary scholars and historians alike.
Trade Review'Press Censorship in Jacobean England is a valuable addition to the revisionist history of the Jacobean age, as well as to our understanding of the practice and mechanisms of early modern censorship.' The Times Literary Supplement
'This is a scholarly and convincing essay, written from a sound grasp of the historical sources, and a good understanding of the dynamics of the reign.' Journal of Ecclesiastical History
'An excellent companion volume to Clegg's earlier study … for the thoroughness of its scholarship, for the illuminating contribution it makes to our understanding of the complexity of early modern press censorship as well as for opening up new horizons in the historical and literary research on the Jacobean age in general and James I in particular, this is cultural history to savour.' English Studies
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction: Jacobean press censorship and the 'unsatisfying impasse' in the historiography of Stuart England; 1. Authority, license and law: the theory and practice of censorship; 2. Burning books as propaganda; 3. The personal use of censorship in 'the wincy age'; 4. Censorship and the confrontation between prerogative and privilege; 5. The press and foreign policy, 1619–24: 'all eies are directed upon Bohemia'; 6. Ecclesiastical faction, censorship and the rhetoric of silence; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
