Unfree, unequal, unempirical : press freedom, British India and Mill's theory of the public / Christopher Barker. Thomas Elyot on counsel, kairos and freeing speech in Tudor England / Joanne Paul -- Pearls before swine : limiting godly speech in early seventeenth-century England / Karl Gunther -- 'Free speech' in Elizabethan and early Stuart England / Peter Lake -- The origins of the concept of freedom of the press / David Como -- Swift and free speech / David Wormersley -- Defending the truth : arguments for free speech and their limits in early eighteenth-century Britain and France / Ann Thomson -- 'The warr ... against heaven by blasphemors and infidels' : prosecuting heresy in Enlightenment England / Robert G. Ingram and Alex W. Barber -- David Hume and 'Of the liberty of the press' (1741) in its original contexts / Max Skjonsberg -- The argument for the freedom of speech and press during the ratification of the US Constitution, 1787-88 / Patrick Peel -- Before -- and beyond -- On liberty : Samuel Bailey and the nineteenth-century theory of free speech / Greg Conti -- Unfree, unequal, unempirical : press freedom, British India and Mill's theory of the public / Christopher Barker.
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.
Series:
Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain
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