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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
Otros Autores: Haslam, Jason, 1971- (Editor ), Wright, Julia M. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"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 international scholars to examine nineteenth-century writings by prisoners, slaves, and other captives, tracing some of the continuities among the varieties of captivity and their crucial relationship to post-Enlightenment subjectivities." "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. It details the specific historical and cultural practices of confinement and their relations to each other and to punishment through a range of national contexts."--BOOK JACKET.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (290 pages).
ISBN:9781442672734