Prison Writing, Writing Prison during the 1640s and 1650s

Prison Writing, Writing Prison during the 1640s and 1650s

In this article, Jerome de Groot looks at the ways in which prison was conceived of in writings by imprisoned royalists to show that royalist writings are more diverse than we have realized. He reflects on the physical conditions of prisons and on writings about imprisonment during the 1640s and 165...

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Published in:The Huntington Library quarterly Vol. 72; no. 2; pp. 193 - 215
Main Author: de Groot, Jerome
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia University of California Press 01-06-2009
University of Pennsylvania Press
Subjects:
Civil wars
Correctional Institutions
Cultural identity
HLA antigens
Ideology
Institutionalized Persons
Keywords
Parliaments
Poetry
Polemics
Politics
Prison art
Prison conditions
Prison ships
Prisoners of war & missing in action
Prisons
Religion
Retirement
United States History
War
Writing
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Summary:In this article, Jerome de Groot looks at the ways in which prison was conceived of in writings by imprisoned royalists to show that royalist writings are more diverse than we have realized. He reflects on the physical conditions of prisons and on writings about imprisonment during the 1640s and 1650s as a way of considering the complex, overlapping, and dynamic ways that legal and royalist identity was conceptualized during those decades. Prison writing shows us not simply the models that royalism deployed to represent itself but also how it understood and engaged with multiple other discourses, including law, religion, and dissidence.
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ISSN:0018-7895
1544-399X
DOI:10.1525/hlq.2009.72.2.193