Poetics of the pillory : English literature and seditious libel, 1660-1820 / Thomas Keymer.
Poetics of the pillory : English literature and seditious libel, 1660-1820 / Thomas Keymer.
Poetics of the pillory : English literature and seditious libel, 1660-1820 / Thomas Keymer.
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Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
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G 2020/3111
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English
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xiii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Publisher
Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
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First edition.
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England
Date Published
2019.
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On the lapse of the Licensing Act in 1695, Thomas Macaulay wrote in his History of England, 'English literature was emancipated, and emancipated for ever, from the control of the government'. It's certainly true that the system of prior restraint enshrined in this Restoration measure was now at an end, at least for print. Yet the same cannot be sai...
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Poetics of the pillory : English literature and seditious libel, 1660-1820 / Thomas Keymer.
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Clarendon lectures in English
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-307) and index.
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©2019
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G 2020/3111
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74VKadbgQB23
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKadbgQB23
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9780198744498
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820.9005
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991024322218802626
