The 1622 publication of Imprisonment of Mens Bodies for Debt marked the beginning of a decades-long tradition of anti-carceral activism in London's prisons. By recovering prison activists’ practices of publication and republication, the article reveals a vibrant world of textual production in prisons that enabled political interventions grounded in the material and structural conditions of incarceration. Anti-carceral activism relied on the varied uses of print and manuscript that formed part of the day-to-day experience of incarceration. These local practices were combined with new processes of national political communication, from parliamentary petitioning and news printing in the 1620s, to manuscript pamphleteering and the demand for legal texts in the 1630s, and the explosion of radical printing and political agitation in the 1640s. Operating at the intersection of quotidian textual practice and developing forms of political communication, prison activism became engaged in wider currents of national debate. Thus, the article demonstrates how a relatively marginal social constituency could utilize these modes and networks of political communication across multiple media and how, in turn, such groups could both develop connections to radical political networks and come to imagine their cause as part of a wider political moment.

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印刷网络、手稿宣传册和 17 世纪伦敦监狱政治的发展

1622年出版因债务入狱标志着伦敦监狱长达数十年的反监狱活动传统的开始。通过恢复监狱活动家出版和再版的做法，本文揭示了监狱中文本生产的一个充满活力的世界，它使基于监​​禁的物质和结构条件的政治干预成为可能。反监狱行动主义依赖印刷品和手稿的各种用途，这些印刷品和手稿构成了日常监禁经历的一部分。这些地方实践与国家政治传播的新进程相结合，从 1620 年代的议会请愿和新闻印刷，到 1630 年代的手稿小册子制作和对法律文本的需求，以及 1640 年代激进印刷和政治鼓动的爆发。在日常文本实践和发展中的政治交流形式的交叉点上运作，监狱激进主义参与了更广泛的全国辩论潮流。因此，本文展示了相对边缘的社会选民如何利用这些跨多种媒体的政治传播模式和网络，以及这些群体如何反过来与激进的政治网络建立联系，并开始将他们的事业想象为更广泛的政治的一部分。政治时刻。