Download e-book for iPad: Roger L'Estrange and the Making of Restoration Culture: 0 by Beth Lynch,Anne Dunan-Page

Roger L'Estrange (1616-1704) used to be probably the most striking, major and vibrant figures in seventeenth-century England. when there was ordinary, if frequently cursory, scholarly curiosity in his actions as Licenser and Stuart apologist, this is often the 1st sustained book-length examine of the fellow for nearly a century. L'Estrange's engagement at the Royalist facet in the course of the Civil battle, and his full of life pamphleteering for the go back of the King within the months previous the recovery earned him a name as some of the most radical royalist apologists. As Licenser for the click lower than Charles II, he used to be charged with combating the printing and e-book of dissenting writings; his extra position as Surveyor of the click accepted him to go looking the premises of printers and booksellers at the mere suspicion of such job. He was once additionally a tireless pamphleteer, journalist, and controversialist within the conformist reason, all of which made him the bête noire of Whigs and non-conformists. This selection of essays through top students of the interval highlights the instrumental function L'Estrange performed within the shaping of the political, literary, and print cultures of the recovery interval. Taking an interdisciplinary process the amount covers the entire significant facets of his occupation, in addition to situating them of their broader old and literary context. through reading his occupation during this means the ebook deals insights that might turn out of worthy to political, social, spiritual and cultural historians, in addition to these drawn to seventeenth-century literary and booklet history.