Censorship and cultural sensibility : the regulation of language in Tudor-Stuart England / Debora Sh...
Censorship and cultural sensibility : the regulation of language in Tudor-Stuart England / Debora Sh...
Censorship and cultural sensibility : the regulation of language in Tudor-Stuart England / Debora Shuger.
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Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006.
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N342.42085/ 7
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English
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346 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. "That great and immoderate liberty of lying" -- 2. The index and the English : two traditions of early modern censorship -- 3. Roman law -- 4. The Christian transmission fo Roman law Iniuria -- 5. The law of all civility -- 6. Defendants' rights and poetic justice -- 7. Hermeneutics, history, and...
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Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006.
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Pennsylvania
Date Published
c2006.
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Summary
"In this study of the reciprocities binding religion, politics, law, and literature, Debora Shuger offers a profoundly new history of early modern English censorship, one that bears centrally on issues still current: the rhetoric of ideological extremism, the use of defamation to ruin political opponents, the grounding of law in theological ethics,...
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Censorship and cultural sensibility : the regulation of language in Tudor-Stuart England / Debora Shuger.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-335) and index.
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c2006.
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N342.42085/ 7
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74VKRXvQ60BA
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9780812239171 (cased) :
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342.420853
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991023157439702626
