The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

Ahnert, Ruth

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century - New York Cambridge University Press 2017 - 222p

includes index and biblioraphy

Introduction ...1 1 The sixteenth century prison ...8 An antipanopticon ...11 Writing from the inside ...22 2 Writing the prison ...29 Graffiti ...33 Graffiti on the page ...42 Thomas more`s tower works ...48 Prison psalms ...59 3 Prison communities ...74 Margaret douglas and thomas howard`s epistolary verse ...81 John harington`s booke of freendeship ...90 Nicholas ridley and his comfortable conferences ...100 4 Frends abrode ...112 John frith and the brethren ...118 John fisher and elizabeth white ...129 The carriers of John bradford`s letters ...136 5 Liberating the text ...144 1557 ...151 Foxe`s forebears ...166 The book of Martyr`s ...181 Afterword ...193 Bibliography ...202 Index ...218

9781108438797 1800

U09 / AN630

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