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Captivating subjects : writing confinement, citizenship, and nationhood in the nineteenth century /

"Captivating Subjects is a collection of essays that fills several crucial gaps in the critical examination of the relations between Western state-sanctioned confinement, identity, nation, and literature. Editors Jason Haslam and Julia M. Wright have brought together an esteemed group of intern...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wright, Julia M. (Editor ), Haslam, Jason, 1971- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Being Jane Warton: Lady Constance Lytton and the disruption of privilege / Jason Haslam
  • Form and authority in Russian serf narratives / John MacKay
  • I, hereby, vow to read The interesting narrative / Tess Chakkalakal
  • 'From the slums to the slums': the delimitation of social identity in late Victorian prison narratives / Frank Lauterbach
  • 'Stone walls do (not) a prison make': rhetorical strategies and sentimentalism in the representation of the Victorian prison experience / Monika Fludernik
  • 'National feeling' and the colonial prison: Teeling's Personal narrative / Julia M. Wright
  • A nation in chains: Barbary captives and American identity / Jennifer Costello Brezina
  • A prison officer and a gentleman: the prison inspector as imperialist hero in the writings of Major Arthur Griffiths (1838-1908) / Christine Marlin.