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UNINA9910453221003321 |
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Grass Sean <1971-, > |
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The self in the cell : narrating the Victorian prisoner / / Sean Grass |
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London : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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1-138-98162-1 |
1-135-38484-3 |
0-203-95444-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Collana |
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Literary criticism and cultural theory |
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Disciplina |
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English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
Prisoners in literature |
Prisons - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 19th century |
Self in literature |
Prisons in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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First published in 2003 by Routledge. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION Solitude, Surveillance, and the Art of the Novel; CHAPTER 1 Narrating the Victorian Prisoner; CHAPTER 2 Prisoners by Boz: Pickwick Papers and American Notes; CHAPTER 3 Charles Reade, the Facts, and Deliberate Fictions; CHAPTER 4 ""How Not to Do It"": Dickens, the Prison, and the Failure of Omniscience; CHAPTER 5 The ""Marks System"": Australia and Narrative Wounding; CHAPTER 6 The Self in the Cell: Villette, Armadale, and Victorian Self-Narration |
CONCLUSION Narrative Power and Private Truth: Freud, Foucault, and The Mystery of Edwin DroodNOTES; WORKS CITED; INDEX |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Michel Foucault's writing about the Panopticon in Discipline and Punish has dominated discussions of the prison and the novel, and recent literary criticism draws heavily from Foucauldian ideas about surveillance to analyze metaphorical forms of confinement: policing, |
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detection, and public scrutiny and censure. But real Victorian prisons and the novels that portray them have few similarities to the Panopticon. Sean Grass provides a necessary alternative to Foucault by tracing the cultural history of the Victorian prison, and pointing to the tangible relations between Victorian confine |
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