Royalism, Print and Censorship in Revolutionary England (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History, 6)

✍ Scribed by Jason McElligott

Publisher: Boydell Press
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 286
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This is a study of a remarkable set of royalist newsbooks produced in conditions of strict secrecy in London during the late 1640s. It uses these flimsy, ephemeral sheets of paper to rethink the nature of both royalism and Civil War allegiance. Royalism, Print and Censorship in Revolutionary England moves beyond the simple and simplistic dichotomies of 'absolutism' versus 'constitutionalism'. In doing so, it offers a nuanced, innovative and exciting vision of a strangely neglected aspect of the Civil Wars. Print has always been seen as a radical, destabilizing force: an agent of social change and revolution. Royalism, Print and Censorship in Revolutionary England demonstrates, by contrast, how lively, vibrant and exciting the use of print as an agent of conservatism could be. It seeks to rescue the history of polemic in 1640s and 1650s England from an undue preoccupation with the factional squabbles of leading politicians. In doing so, it offers a fundamental reappraisal of the theory

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
Introduction: Royalism and its Problems
1. Royalists and Polemic in the 1640s
2. The Politics of Sexual Libel
3. The Twists and Turns of Royalist Propaganda
4. Authors, Shifting Allegiances and the Nature of Royalism
5. Printers, Publishers and the Royalist Underground
6. Hunting the Royalist Press
7. The Theory and Practice of Censorship
8. A New Model of Press Censorship
CONCLUSION
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

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