Measured Sentences
Forming Literature in the Early Modern Prison
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9377273 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Molly Murray (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 147-167 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Huntington Library Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7895 • E-ISSN: 1544-399X |
| Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/hlq.2009.72.2.147 |
| OpenAlex | W2076270157 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
In striking contrast to the modern penitentiary, the early modern English prison was porous, unsystematic, and contingent, governed by particular and shifting relationships. Molly Murray recovers this vibrantly irregular prison world as an important site of textual production. By considering the various textual artifacts produced in and around the early modern prison, especially one obscure manuscript psalter produced in the Tower, she offers a new way of imagining both the conditions and consolations of prison writing-especially prison poetry
Archaeology · Linguistics · Prison · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Philosophy
A Colonial Affair
On the probability and direction of morphosyntactic lifespan change
We have sick souls when God’s physic works not’
Christian notes sound sweetest suffering’
Printed in the seventh year of the authors oppression”
Puritan Martyrs in Island Prisons
Print Networks, Manuscript Pamphleteering, and the Development of Prison Politics in Seventeenth-Century London
| Citations per year | 0.78 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |