Freedom of speech, 1500-1850 / edited by Robert G. Ingram, Jason Peacey, Alex W. Barber.
2020
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Title
Freedom of speech, 1500-1850 / edited by Robert G. Ingram, Jason Peacey, Alex W. Barber.
Imprint
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.
Description
1 online resource.
Series
Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
Summary
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 24, 2020).
Available in Other Form
Print version: FREEDOM OF SPEECH, 1500-1850. [S.l.] : MANCHESTER UNIV PRESS, 2020
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Access restricted to subscribing institutions.
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Language
English
ISBN
9781526147110 (electronic book)
1526147114 (electronic book)
9781526147103
1526147106
1526147114 (electronic book)
9781526147103
1526147106
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