Reading prisoners : literature, literacy, and the transformation of American punishment, 1700-1845 /
Shining new light on early American prison literature-from its origins in last words, dying warnings, and gallows literature to its later works of autobiography, exposé, and imaginative literature-Reading Prisoners weaves together insights about the rise of the early American penitentiary, the hist...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2014]
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Series: | Critical issues in crime and society.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. A Is for Aardvark
- Part One. Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Gaol
- 1. Books Behind Bars
- 2. Crime, Ink
- Part Two. Literacy in the Early Penitentiary
- 3. What Shall a Convict Do
- 4. Written by One Who Knows
- Afterword. Good Convict, Good Citizen?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author