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Project

Satire and the Law in the Eighteenth Century.

Outputs and Outcomes

Code

01N12319

Duration

01 September 2019 → 30 June 2024

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

Andrew Bricker

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- Other languages and literary studies not elsewhere classified

Keywords

Satire, press freedom, law, literature, caricature

Project description

This project studies how the law shaped both verbal and visual satire published in England during its "Golden Age" (1660-1740) and across the "long" 18th century (1660-1840). The project will focus on the prosecution of satirists and their publishers and track how these trials and the debates
surrounding them fundamentally influenced both the growth and public perception of press freedom.

English

Dutch

English

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