LEADER 03121nam 22006492 450 001 9910824893103321 005 20151005020622.0 010 $a1-139-89310-6 010 $a1-107-42522-0 010 $a1-108-43879-2 010 $a1-107-42301-5 010 $a1-139-62884-4 010 $a1-107-41994-8 010 $a1-107-42118-7 010 $a1-107-41733-3 010 $a1-107-41859-3 035 $a(CKB)2550000001115173 035 $a(EBL)1394587 035 $a(OCoLC)863202621 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000957188 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12422489 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000957188 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10980359 035 $a(PQKB)11071365 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139628846 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1394587 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1394587 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10753038 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL515475 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001115173 100 $a20121129d2013|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe rise of prison literature in the sixteenth century /$fRuth Ahnert$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 221 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-04030-2 311 $a1-299-84224-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- The sixteenth-century prison -- Writing the prison -- Prison communities -- 'Frendes abrode' -- Liberating the text? -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $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. 606 $aPrisoners' writings$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPrisoners in literature 615 0$aPrisoners' writings$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPrisoners in literature. 676 $a809/.8920692 700 $aAhnert$b Ruth$0763266 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824893103321 996 $aRise of prison literature in the sixteenth century$91548351 997 $aUNINA