03010nam 2200505 450 991081463490332120200520144314.01-4426-7273-0(CKB)4540000000000285(MiAaPQ)EBC4671323(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/m11bc2(BIP)031985542(Au-PeEL)EBL4671323(CaPaEBR)ebr11257040(OCoLC)958564982(EXLCZ)99454000000000028520160914h20052005 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierCaptivating subjects writing confinement, citizenship, and nationhood in the nineteenth century /edited by Jason Haslam and Julia M. WrightToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2005.20051 online resource (290 pages)0-8020-8968-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Ever since Michel Foucault's highly regarded work on prisons and confinement in the 1970s, critical examination of the forerunners to the prison - slavery, serfdom, and colonial confinements - has been rare. However, these institutions inform and participate in many of the same ideologies that the prison enforces.Captivating Subjectsis 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.ImprisonmentWestern countriesHistory19th centurySourcesImprisonmentSocial aspectsWestern countriesSourcesPrisoners' writingsHistory and criticismImprisonmentHistoryImprisonmentSocial aspectsPrisoners' writingsHistory and criticism.365/.918/1209034Haslam Jason W(Jason William),1971-Wright Julia M.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814634903321Captivating subjects3988644UNINA