Press Censorship in Jacobean England.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-OCT-03

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Press Censorship in Jacobean England. By CYNDIA SUSAN CLEGG. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2001. xi + 286 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $59.95. ISBN 0-521-78243-0.

Censorship has become such a site of contention in studies of the early seventeenth century largely because it has become one of the dominant tropes through which we read political culture. Revisionists in the 1970s began an assault on a Whig model of repressive state censorship that aimed to silence all dissent to argue for a state that lacked the political will and effective mechanisms of control to impose a programmatic censorship. Instead the internal...

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