Poetics of the pillory : English literature and seditious libel, 1660-1820 / Thomas Keymer.
On the lapse of the Licensing Act in 1695, Thomas Macaulay wrote in his History of England, 'English literature was emancipated, and emancipated for ever, from the control of the government'. It's certainly true that the system of prior restraint enshrined in this Restoration measure...
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Oxford , United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America :
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2019.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Clarendon lectures in English.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.1660-1700. Faint Meaning: Dryden and Restoration Censorship
- Strange elegy: Lachrymae musarum, Heroic Stanzas
- Panegyric in print and script, Astram Redux to Mac Fleknoe
- Plays and parallels: Exclusion Crisis libel and the licensing lapse
- Fable, history, translation: scourging by proxy
- 2.1700-1740. Libels in Hieroglyphics: Pope, Defoe
- Earless in Grubstreet
- Wit, and punishment, and Pope: The Dunciad and after
- Irony, intention, interpretation: The Shortest Way with the Dissenters
- Defoe in the pillory
- Allegoric histories: Windsor Forest, Robinson Crusoe
- 3.1730-1780. The Trade of Libelling: Fielding, Johnson
- Defeating the pillory: Mist, Curll, Shebbeare, Wilkes
- Performance and print under Walpole
- Fielding and Walpole: the art of thriving
- Lives of the opposition poets
- Johnsonian sedition: London, Marmor Norfolciense
- 4.1780-1820. Southey's New Star Chamber: Literature, Revolution, and Romantic-Era Libel
- Allegories, parodies, polemics: Walter Cox, William Hone, and others
- The ̀€King Chaunticlere' trial: arbitrary innuendo and necessary sense
- Trumpets of sedition?
- Censorship, copyright, and Wat Tyler
- The most seditious book that was ever written
- Conclusion: England in 1820.