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020			_a9781139628846 (ebook)
020			_z9781107040304 (hardback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aPN494 _b.A38 2013
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100	1		_aAhnert, Ruth, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century / _cRuth Ahnert.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (241 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aExamining 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.
650		0	_aPrisoners in literature
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107040304
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139628846
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
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