Royalism, Print and Censorship in Revolutionary England, Tom 6Boydell Press, 2007 - 274 A study of the content and methods of royalist propaganda via newsbooks in the crucial period following the end of the first civil war. 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 visionof 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, bycontrast, 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 and practice of censorship in early-modern England, and of the way in which we should approach the history of books and print-culture. JASON McELLIGOTT is the J.P.R. Lyell Research Fellow in the History of the Early Modern Printed Book at Merton College, Oxford. |
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... named Richard Lowndes should be committed to Newgate for selling Mercurius Pragmaticus , and three days later the unnamed printer of Mercurius Melancholicus was brought before the Committee of the Militia of London , forced to pay a ...
... named Lucretia East in June 1626 , but was subsequently transferred to the printer Miles Flesher and was freed by him in July 1633.26 Ellis operated a small print - shop in Thames Street in the late 1640s and early 1650s , but the ...
... named Ellen Brabin was arrested while distributing presumably royalist ' traitorous pamphlets ' within the City of London . 135 The activities of the searchers forced Pragmaticus to miss an issue in late March , and The Man in the Moon ...
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Royalists and Polemic in the 1640s | 13 |
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