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The Invention of Free Press: Writers and Censorship in Eighteenth Century Europe
Edoardo Tortarolo
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Description for The Invention of Free Press: Writers and Censorship in Eighteenth Century Europe
Hardback. Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees. Num Pages: 370 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; HBTB; JFMD; JPVH2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Tracking the relationship between the theory of press control and the realities of practicing daily press censorship prior to publication, this volume on the suppression of dissent in early modern Europe tackles a topic with many elusive and under-researched characteristics. Pre-publication censorship was common in absolutist regimes in Catholic and Protestant countries alike, but how effective it was in practice remains open to debate. The Netherlands and England, where critical content segued into outright lampoonery, were unusual for hard-wired press freedoms that arose, respectively, from a highly competitive publishing industry and highly decentralized political institutions. These nations remained extraordinary exceptions ... Read more
Tracking the relationship between the theory of press control and the realities of practicing daily press censorship prior to publication, this volume on the suppression of dissent in early modern Europe tackles a topic with many elusive and under-researched characteristics. Pre-publication censorship was common in absolutist regimes in Catholic and Protestant countries alike, but how effective it was in practice remains open to debate. The Netherlands and England, where critical content segued into outright lampoonery, were unusual for hard-wired press freedoms that arose, respectively, from a highly competitive publishing industry and highly decentralized political institutions. These nations remained extraordinary exceptions ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees
Condition
New
Weight
496g
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789401773454
SKU
V9789401773454
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About Edoardo Tortarolo
Edoardo Tortarolo was born in Italy in 1956. Educated at the University of Turin, he has taught at several Italian universities, at the University of Leipzig (1997-8), and at Northwestern University (2010 and 2011). In 2006 he was a member of the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton. In 2012-13 he is a member of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, ... Read more
Reviews for The Invention of Free Press: Writers and Censorship in Eighteenth Century Europe
Tortarolo (humanities, Univ. of Eastern Piedmont, Italy) has produced a welcome addition to the rapidly growing literature on book and censorship history. He provides an excellent summary of the growing controversy over censorship amid the 18th-century Enlightenment, including the views of such luminaries as Thomas Hobbes, John Milton, Marie-Jean de Condorcet, Baron Paul d'Holbach and (French censor) Lamoignon de Malesherbes. ... Read more