International John Bunyan Society Regional Day Conference held at Northumbria University, Newcastle

• Published in: Bunyan studies no. 21; pp. 98 - 100
• Main Author: Walker, David
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2017
• Subjects: British & Irish literature; Bunyan, John (1628-1688); Conferences; Early modern period; Imprisonment; Literary devices; Narrative techniques; Poetics; Poetry; Prisoners; Prisons; Society; Websites; Writing; New York; United Kingdom > UK; United States > US; Europe; England; California
• ISSN: 0954-0970

The aim of these Day Conferences is twofold: to provide opportunities for regional members of IJBS to meet between the triennial conferences, and to enhance the profile of the Society by organising scholarly events on literary and historical topics that appeal to a wide range of people. Entitled 'Freedom, Constraint, and the Rule of Art: Prison Poetics in an Age of Emergency', it discussed poetry written in prisons between the 1530s and the 1680s, arguing that the formal constraints of poetic expression were linked in suggestive ways with the experience of writing in the confined conditions of a prison. [...]speakers at the conference explored some of the many reasons why prisoners turned to writing, and who they thought they were writing for.