
Poetics of the Pillory
English Literature and Seditious Libel, 1660-1820
By: Thomas Keymer
Hardcover | 7 November 2019
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otherwise contentious meanings while rendering the meanings deniable.
As a work of both history and criticism, this book traces the rise and fall of seditious libel prosecution, and with it the theatre of the pillory, while arguing that the period's characteristic forms of literary complexity--ambiguity, ellipsis, indirection, irony--may be traced to the persistence of censorship in the post-licensing world. The argument proceeds through case studies of major poets and prose writers including Dryden, Defoe, Pope, Fielding, Johnson, and Southey, and also calls attention to numerous little-known satires and libels across the extended period.
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For Thomas Keymer in his beautifully detailed history, such strategies of evasion are one of the things that make seditious literary texts worth reading, forms of energetic 'creativity and rhetorical complexity' for which, perhaps counterintuitively, we have the early modern political state to thank. * Clare Bucknell, London Review of Books *
There is a wealth of learning here. * Los Angeles Review of Books *
...a major addition to the well-established critical discussion about the links between literature and censorship. * Paul Keen, Eighteenth-Century Fiction *
Armed against any Whiggish optimism, Keymer traces the flexible boundary between literature and law across more than a century and a half with exceptional deftness-a huge amount of material has been digested and arranged here so as to be read with great ease and enjoyment. . . . A whole series of major authors emerge from Keymer's study in a fresh perspective-Dryden, Andrew Marvell, Pope, Daniel Defoe, Fielding, Johnson, and most strikingly Robert Southey. This is a book of the first importance. * David Womersley, Studies in English Literature *
Thomas Keymer's excellent new book is a combined history and critical study of the ways in which conditions of censorship shaped English literature during the long eighteenth century (1660-1820). The book began life as the Clarendon Lectures given at the University of Oxford in 2014-15; these have been expanded with rich archival and critical detail, without sacrificing the energy and lucidity of the lectures. * Niall Allsopp, Seventeenth-Century News *
ISBN: 9780198744498
ISBN-10: 0198744498
Series: Clarendon Lectures in English
Published: 7th November 2019
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 336
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: Oxford University Press UK
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 13.9 x 20.2 x 3.0
Weight (kg): 0.52
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- Non-FictionLiterature, Poetry & PlaysHistory & Criticism of LiteratureGeneral Literary StudiesLiterary Studies from 1500 to 1800
- Non-FictionLawLaws of Specific JurisdictionsEntertainment & Media LawDefamation Law including Slander & Libel
- Non-FictionSociety & CultureEthical Issues & DebatesEthical Issues of Censorship
- Non-FictionLiterature, Poetry & PlaysHistory & Criticism of LiteratureLiterary Studies of Fiction
- Non-FictionLiterature, Poetry & PlaysHistory & Criticism of LiteratureGeneral Literary StudiesLiterary Studies from 1800 to 1900