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The World's First Full Press Freedom : The Radical Experiment of Denmark-Norway 1770-1773 / Ulrik Langen, Frederik Stjernfelt.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (XV, 551 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110771800
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No title; No titleOnline resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Graphs, Maps, and Illustrations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Eighteenth-Century Denmark-Norway and the Introduction of Press Freedom -- 3 Absolutism and Press Freedom Debated -- 4 Press Freedom Debates During Press Freedom -- 5 Economy and Good Government -- 6 Church and Religion in a Free Public Sphere -- 7 The City of Press Freedom - People and Place -- 8 A Copenhagen of Books and Pamphlets -- 9 How the Pamphlet Market Turned against its Originator and Fed into his Fall - from the Summer of 1771 to the January 1772 Coup -- 10 The New Order of 1772 - A Clerical Campaign and a Clean-Up Party -- 11 Struensee The Monster -- 12 A European Cause Célèbre - the Struensee Affair and its International Reverberations -- 13 An International Pamphlet War -- 14 The Slow Smothering 1772-1773 -- 15 Perspectives -- Cast of Main Characters of the Press Freedom Period -- Archive Material, Papers, and Periodicals -- The Luxdorph Collection with addenda -- Literatur -- Index
Summary: The book charts an extraordinary period in Danish history: the "Press Freedom Period" of 1770-73, in which King Christian 7's physician J.F. Struensee introduced a series of radical enlightenment reforms beginning with the total abolishment of censorship. The book investigates the sudden avalanche of pamphlets and debates, initiating the modern public sphere of Denmark-Norway. Publications show a surprising variety, from serious political, economic, and philosophical treatises over criticism, polemics, ridicule, entertainment, and to spin campaigns, obscenities, libel, threats. A successful coup against Struensee led to his subsequent public execution in Copenhagen, and the latter half of the period saw the gradual smothering of the new public sphere as well as an international pamphlet storm over what was happening in Denmark. Readers all over Europe proved curious to learn about the radical experiment with enlightened absolutism in Denmark; interest was heightened by the involvement of the Danish Queen, the English princess Caroline Matilda to whom Struensee had an intimate relation. The book is a detailed portrayal of a seminal event in the development of the public sphere in Europe.
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Graphs, Maps, and Illustrations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Eighteenth-Century Denmark-Norway and the Introduction of Press Freedom -- 3 Absolutism and Press Freedom Debated -- 4 Press Freedom Debates During Press Freedom -- 5 Economy and Good Government -- 6 Church and Religion in a Free Public Sphere -- 7 The City of Press Freedom - People and Place -- 8 A Copenhagen of Books and Pamphlets -- 9 How the Pamphlet Market Turned against its Originator and Fed into his Fall - from the Summer of 1771 to the January 1772 Coup -- 10 The New Order of 1772 - A Clerical Campaign and a Clean-Up Party -- 11 Struensee The Monster -- 12 A European Cause Célèbre - the Struensee Affair and its International Reverberations -- 13 An International Pamphlet War -- 14 The Slow Smothering 1772-1773 -- 15 Perspectives -- Cast of Main Characters of the Press Freedom Period -- Archive Material, Papers, and Periodicals -- The Luxdorph Collection with addenda -- Literatur -- Index

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The book charts an extraordinary period in Danish history: the "Press Freedom Period" of 1770-73, in which King Christian 7's physician J.F. Struensee introduced a series of radical enlightenment reforms beginning with the total abolishment of censorship. The book investigates the sudden avalanche of pamphlets and debates, initiating the modern public sphere of Denmark-Norway. Publications show a surprising variety, from serious political, economic, and philosophical treatises over criticism, polemics, ridicule, entertainment, and to spin campaigns, obscenities, libel, threats. A successful coup against Struensee led to his subsequent public execution in Copenhagen, and the latter half of the period saw the gradual smothering of the new public sphere as well as an international pamphlet storm over what was happening in Denmark. Readers all over Europe proved curious to learn about the radical experiment with enlightened absolutism in Denmark; interest was heightened by the involvement of the Danish Queen, the English princess Caroline Matilda to whom Struensee had an intimate relation. The book is a detailed portrayal of a seminal event in the development of the public sphere in Europe.

Issued also in print.

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