Censorship and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England: The Subtle Art of Division

by Randy Robertson

Book Overview

Censorship profoundly affected early modern writing. Censorship and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England offers a detailed picture of early modern censorship and investigates the pressures that censorship exerted on seventeenth-century authors, printers, and publishers. In the 1600s, Britain witnessed a civil war, the judicial execution of a king, the restoration of his son, and an unremitting struggle among crown, parliament, and people...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271058803
• ISBN13: 9780271058801
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"