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