How Long to Read Censorship and Cultural Sensibility

How Long Does it Take to Read Censorship and Cultural Sensibility?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 42 minutes to read Censorship and Cultural Sensibility by Debora Shuger

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In this study of the reciprocities binding religion, politics, law, and literature, Debora Shuger offers a profoundly new history of early modern English censorship, one that bears centrally on issues still current: the rhetoric of ideological extremism, the use of defamation to ruin political opponents, the grounding of law in theological ethics, and the terrible fragility of public spheres. Starting from the question of why no one prior to the mid-1640s argued for free speech or a free press per se, Censorship and Cultural Sensibility surveys the texts against which Tudor-Stuart censorship aimed its biggest guns, which turned out not to be principled dissent but libels, conspiracy fantasies, and hate speech. The book explores the laws that attempted to suppress such material, the cultural values that underwrote this regulation, and, finally, the very different framework of assumptions whose gradual adoption rendered censorship illegitimate. Virtually all substantive law on language concerned defamation, regulating what one could say about other people. Hence Tudor-Stuart laws extended protection only to the person hurt by another's words, never to their speaker. In treating transgressive language as akin to battery, English law differed fundamentally from papal censorship, which construed its target as heresy. There were thus two models of censorship operative in the early modern period, both premised on religious norms, but one concerned primarily with false accusation and libel, the other with false belief and immorality. Shuger investigates the first of these models—the dominant English one—tracing its complex origins in the Roman law of iniuria through medieval theological ethics and Continental jurisprudence to its continuities and discontinuities with current U.S. law. In so doing, she enables her reader to grasp how in certain contexts censorship could be understood as safeguarding both charitable community and personal dignitary rights.

How long is Censorship and Cultural Sensibility?

Censorship and Cultural Sensibility by Debora Shuger is 341 pages long, and a total of 85,591 words.

This makes it 115% the length of the average book. It also has 105% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Censorship and Cultural Sensibility Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 47 minutes to read Censorship and Cultural Sensibility aloud.

What Reading Level is Censorship and Cultural Sensibility?

Censorship and Cultural Sensibility is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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