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Stones of law, bricks of shame : narrating imprisonment in the Victorian age /
Studying the ways in which writings on prisons were woven into the fabric of the period, the contributors to this volumen consider the ways in which these works affected inmates, the prison system, and the Victorian public.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press,
©2009
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Jan Alber and Frank Lauterbach
- Victims or vermin? Contradictions in Dickens's penal philosophy / David Paroissien
- New prisons, new criminals, new masculinity: Dickens and Reade / Jeremy Tambling
- Facing a mirror: Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a thug and the politics of imperial self-incrimination / Matthew Kaiser
- 'Now, now, the door was down': Dickens and excarceration, 1841-2 / Adam Hansen
- Irish prisoners and the indictment of British rule in the writings of William Makepeace Thackeray and Anthony Trollope / Laura Berol
- The poetics of 'pattern penitence': 'pet prisoners' and plagiarized selves / Anna Schur
- Prisoners and prisons in reform tracts of the mid-century / W.B. Carnochan
- Great expectations, self-narration, and the power of the prison / Sean C. Grass
- From 'dry volumes of facts and figures' to stories of 'flesh and blood': the prison narratives of Frederick William Robinson / Anne Schwan
- The sensational prison and the (un)hidden hand of punishment / Jason Haslam
- Prisons of stone and mind: Henry James's The princess Casamassima and In the cage / Greta Olson
- Epilogue: female confinement in Sarah Waters's neo-Victorian fiction / Rosario Arias.