Freedom of speech, 1500-1850. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Robert Ingram, Jason Peacey, Alex W. Barber.
• Editors: Ingram, Robert G; Peacey, Jason; Barber, Alex W
• Contents: 1 Freedom of speech in England and the Anglophone world, 1500–1850 – Jason Peacey, Robert G. Ingram and Alex W. Barber; 2 Thomas Elyot on counsel, kairos and freeing speech in Tudor England – Joanne Paul; 3 Pearls before swine: limiting godly speech in early seventeenth-century England – Karl Gunther; 4 ‘Free speech’ in Elizabethan and early Stuart England – Peter Lake; 5 The origins of the concept of freedom of the press – David Como; 6 Swift and free speech – David Womersley; 7 Defending the truth: arguments for free speech and their limits in early eighteenth-century Britain and France – Ann Thomson; 8 ‘The warr… against heaven by blasphemors and infidels’: prosecuting heresy in Enlightenment England – Robert G. Ingram and Alex W. Barber; 9 David Hume and ‘Of the Liberty of the Press’ (1741) in its original contexts – Max Skjönsberg; 10 The argument for the freedom of speech and press during the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, 1787–8 – Patrick Peel; 11 Before – and beyond – On Liberty : Samuel Bailey and the nineteenth-century theory of free speech – Greg Conti; 12 Unfree, unequal, unempirical: press freedom, British India and Mill’s theory of the public – Christopher Barker; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 323.44309; Freedom of speech -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526147097; 9781526147110
• Related ISBNs: 9781526147103
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