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Captivating Subjects : Writing Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century.
This volume is the first sustained examination of the ways in which the diverse kinds of confinement intersect with Western ideologies of subjectivity, investigating the modern nation-state's reliance on captivity as a means of consolidating notions of individual and national sovereignty.
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Subject of Captivity; 1 Being Jane Warton: Lady Constance Lytton and the Disruption of Privilege; 2 Form and Authority in Russian Serf Narratives; 3 I, Hereby, Vow to Read The Interesting Narrative; Captivating Discourses: Class and Nation; 4 'From the Slums to the Slums': The Delimitation of Social Identity in Late Victorian Prison Narratives; 5 'Stone Walls Do (Not) a Prison Make': Rhetorical Strategies and Sentimentalism in the Representation of the Victorian Prison Experience.
- 6 'National Feeling' and the Colonial Prison: Teeling's Personal NarrativeCaptivating Otherness; 7 A Nation in Chains: Barbary Captives and American Identity; 8 A Prison Officer and a Gentleman: The Prison Inspector as Imperialist Hero in the Writings of Major Arthur Griffiths (1838-1908); Bibliography; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.