The rise of prison literature in the sixteenth century /

"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 i...

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Main Author: Ahnert, Ruth
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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505 0 |a Introduction -- The sixteenth-century prison -- Writing the prison -- Prison communities -- 'Frendes abrode' -- Liberating the text? -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index. 
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