03553oam 2200757I 450 991045322100332120200520144314.01-138-98162-11-135-38484-30-203-95444-010.4324/9780203954447 (CKB)2550000001194571(EBL)1603837(SSID)ssj0001108784(PQKBManifestationID)12443210(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001108784(PQKBWorkID)11103624(PQKB)11215248(OCoLC)874146595(MiAaPQ)EBC1603837(Au-PeEL)EBL1603837(CaPaEBR)ebr10832516(CaONFJC)MIL571765(OCoLC)869641564(OCoLC)897450885(EXLCZ)99255000000119457120180706e20132003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe self in the cell narrating the Victorian prisoner /Sean GrassLondon :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (304 p.)Literary criticism and cultural theoryFirst published in 2003 by Routledge.1-306-40514-9 0-415-94355-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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-NarrationCONCLUSION Narrative Power and Private Truth: Freud, Foucault, and The Mystery of Edwin DroodNOTES; WORKS CITED; INDEXMichel 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, 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 confineLiterary Criticism and Cultural TheoryEnglish fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismPrisoners in literaturePrisonsGreat BritainHistory19th centuryNarration (Rhetoric)History19th centurySelf in literaturePrisons in literatureElectronic books.English fictionHistory and criticism.Prisoners in literature.PrisonsHistoryNarration (Rhetoric)HistorySelf in literature.Prisons in literature.823/.809355Grass Sean1971-,944331MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453221003321The self in the cell2131707UNINA