Reading Prisoners : Literature, Literacy, and the Transformation of American Punishment, 1700-1845 /

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Shining new light on early American prison literature-from its origins in last words, dying warnings, and gallows literature to its later works of autobiography, exposé, and imaginative literature-Reading Prisoners weaves together insights about the rise of the early American penitentiary, the histo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schorb, Jodi (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
Colección:Critical Issues in Crime and Society
Temas:
Corrections > United States > History.
Literacy programs > United States > History.
Prisoners as authors > United States > History.
Prisoners > Education > United States > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. A Is for Aardvark: A Prison Literacy Primer
  • Part One. Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century "Gaol"
  • 1. Books Behind Bars: Reading Prisoners on the Scaffold
  • 2. Crime, Ink: The Rise of the Writing Prisoner
  • Part Two. Literacy in the Early Penitentiary
  • 3. "What Shall a Convict Do?": Reading and Reformation in Philadelphia's Early Penitentiaries
  • 4. Written by One Who Knows: Congregate Literacy in New York Prisons
  • Afterword: Good Convict, Good Citizen?
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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