2007, ISBN: 9781843833239

Boydell & Brewer Inc, 16.10, X., 274 p., 6 b/w. illustrations, suppl. Hardcover with dustjacket. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International J… Meer...

Boydell & Brewer Inc, 16.10, X., 274 p., 6 b/w. illustrations, suppl. Hardcover with dustjacket. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - very good condition - Supplement: Review TLS JULY 11 2008 - Introduction: Royalism and its Problems -- Royalists and Polemic in the 1640s -- The Politics of Sexual Libel -- The Twists and Turns of Royalist Propaganda -- Authors, Shifting Allegiances and the Nature of Royalism -- Printers, Publishers and the Royalist Underground -- Hunting the Royalist Press -- The Theory and Practice of Censorship -- A New Model of Press Censorship. - 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. ISBN 9781843833239History 2007, [PU: Boydell & Brewer also Boydell Press]<