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The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R2,819
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The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Hardcover, New): Ruth Ahnert

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Hardcover, New)

Ruth Ahnert

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Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. In the previous centuries we find only isolated examples of prison writings, but the religious and political instability of the Tudor reigns provided the conditions for the practice to thrive. This book shows the wide variety of genres that prisoners wrote, and it explores the subtle tricks they employed in order to appropriate the site of the prison for their own agendas. Ahnert charts the spreading influence of such works beyond the prison cell, tracing the textual communities they constructed, and the ways in which writings were smuggled out of prison and then disseminated through script and print.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: August 2013
First published: August 2013
Authors: Ruth Ahnert
Dimensions: 235 x 160 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 241
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-1-107-04030-4
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Penology & punishment > Prisons
Books > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
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LSN: 1-107-04030-2
Barcode: 9781107040304

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