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Article: Review of David Colclough. Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England.(Book review)
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- Early Modern Literary Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2006 Matthew Steggle. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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David Colclough. Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005. 293pp. ISBN 0 521 84748 6.
Cyndia Susan Clegg
Pepperdine University
cclegg@pepperdine.edu
Clegg, Cyndia Susan. "Review of David Colclough, Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England.." Early Modern Literary Studies 11.3 (January, 2006):8.1-7
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Writing a book about the freedom of speech in early Stuart England at this scholarly moment is a courageous task. Not only has the post-modernist critique of essentialism revealed the degree to which such Enlightenment ideals as freedom of speech have been constructed by dominant cultures to ...