The Self in the Cell Narrating the Victorian Prisoner Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Series
Auteur : Grass Sean C.
Michel Foucault's writing about the Panopticon in Discipline and Punish has dominated discussions of the prison and the novel, and recent literary criticism draws heavily from Foucauldian ideas about surveillance to analyze metaphorical forms of confinement: policing, detection, and public scrutiny and censure. But real Victorian prisons and the novels that portray them have few similarities to the Panopticon. Sean Grass provides a necessary alternative to Foucault by tracing the cultural history of the Victorian prison, and pointing to the tangible relations between Victorian confinement and the narrative production of the self. The Self in the Cellexamines the ways in which separate confinement prisons, with their demand for autobiographical production, helped to provide an impetus and a model that guided novelists' explorations of the private self in Victorian fiction.
Date de parution : 11-2015
15.2x22.9 cm
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Prix indicatif 58,78 €
Ajouter au panierDate de parution : 05-2003
15.2x22.9 cm
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Mots-clés :
american; confinement; moll; notes; papers; pickwick; prison; prisoner; separate; victorian; Young Men; Victorian Prisoners; Victorian Prison; Eastern Penitentiary; Separate Confinement; William Dorrit; Pickwick Papers; Norfolk Island; Prison’s Power; Millbank Penitentiary; Miss Wade; England’s Prisons; Edwin Drood; American Notes; Psychological Exposition; Westminster Bridewell; Madame Defarge; Van Diemen’s Land; Vanden Bossche; Dead Man; Victorian Murderess; Prisoner Autobiographies; Night Shadows; Solitary Prisoner; Holford Committee