Freedom of speech, 1500-1850

This collection offers bold reappraisals of the history of freedom of speech in the pre-modern Anglophone world. It addresses the aims and effectiveness of official policies, the thorny issues with which contemporaries grappled and the claims that were and were not made about freedom of expression.

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Weitere Verfasser: Ingram, Robert G. (HerausgeberIn), Peacey, Jason (HerausgeberIn), Barber, Alex W. (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Manchester Manchester University Press 2020
Schriftenreihe:Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain
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Zusammenfassung:This collection offers bold reappraisals of the history of freedom of speech in the pre-modern Anglophone world. It addresses the aims and effectiveness of official policies, the thorny issues with which contemporaries grappled and the claims that were and were not made about freedom of expression.
Front Matter -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Freedom of speech in England and the anglophone world, 1500-1850 -- Thomas Elyot on counsel, kairos and freeing speech in Tudor England -- Pearls before swine: limiting godly speech in early seventeenth-century England -- 'Free speech' in Elizabethan and early Stuart England -- The origins of the concept of freedom of the press -- Swift and free speech -- Defending the truth: arguments for free speech and their limits in early eighteenth-century Britain and France -- 'The warr … against heaven by blasphemors and infidels': prosecuting heresy in Enlightenment England -- David Hume and 'Of the Liberty of the Press' (1741) in its original contexts -- The argument for the freedom of speech and press during the ratification of the US Constitution, 1787-88 -- Before - and beyond - On Liberty: Samuel Bailey and the nineteenth-century theory of free speech -- Unfree, unequal, unempirical: press freedom, British India and Mill's theory of the public -- Index.
Beschreibung:Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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Beschreibung:xii, 263 Seiten
ISBN:9781526147103
978-1-5261-4710-3
9781526167064
978-1-5261-6706-4