Convict Voices : Women, Class, and Writing about Prison in Nineteenth-Century England /

In this lively study of the development and transformation of voices of female offenders in nineteenth-century England, Anne Schwan analyzes a range of colorful sources, including crime broadsides, reform literature, prisoners' own writings about imprisonment and courtroom politics, and convent...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schwan, Anne (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, New Hampshire : University of New Hampshire Press, [2014]
Series:Becoming modern.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women prisoners in literature.
Women prisoners > England > History > 19th century.
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Approaching female prisons' voices
  • "Shame, you are not going to hang me!": Women's voices in nineteenth-century street literature
  • The lives of which "There are no records kept": Convicts and matrons in the prison narratives of Frederick William Robinson ("A prison Matron")
  • The limits of female reformation: Hidden stories in George Eliot's Adam Bede and Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone
  • "A clamorous multitude and a silent prisoner": Women's rights, spirtualism, and public speech in Susan Willis Fletcher's Twelve Months in an English Prison
  • Gender and citizenship in Edwardian writings from prison: Katie Gliddon and the suffragettes at Holloway
  • Postscript: Rewriting women's prison history in historical fiction: Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace and Sarah Waters's Affinity.

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