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The Self in the Cell : Narrating the Victorian Prisoner.
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 scru...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2014.
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| Colección: | Literary criticism and cultural theory.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION Solitude, Surveillance, and the Art of the Novel; CHAPTER 1 Narrating the Victorian Prisoner; CHAPTER 2 Prisoners by Boz: Pickwick Papers and American Notes; CHAPTER 3 Charles Reade, the Facts, and Deliberate Fictions; CHAPTER 4 ""How Not to Do It"": Dickens, the Prison, and the Failure of Omniscience; CHAPTER 5 The ""Marks System"": Australia and Narrative Wounding; CHAPTER 6 The Self in the Cell: Villette, Armadale, and Victorian Self-Narration.
- CONCLUSION Narrative Power and Private Truth: Freud, Foucault, and The Mystery of Edwin DroodNOTES; WORKS CITED; INDEX.