Royalism, print and censorship in revolutionary England /

A study of the content and methods of royalist propaganda via newsbooks in the crucial period following the end of the first civil war.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McElligott, Jason, 1972- (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press 2007.
Series:Studies in early modern cultural, political and social history ; v. 6.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt14brsvt
Table of Contents:
  • 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.