Poetics of the Pillory: English Literature and Seditious Libel, 1660-1820 by Thomas Keymer

Poetics of the Pillory: English Literature and Seditious Libel, 1660-1820

Thomas Keymer

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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 ...

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