LEADER 03605oam 2200781I 450 001 9910820820003321 005 20240402043801.0 010 $a1-135-38491-6 010 $a1-138-98162-1 010 $a1-135-38484-3 010 $a0-203-95444-0 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203954447 035 $a(CKB)2550000001194571 035 $a(EBL)1603837 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001108784 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12443210 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001108784 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11103624 035 $a(PQKB)11215248 035 $a(OCoLC)874146595 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1603837 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1603837 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10832516 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL571765 035 $a(OCoLC)869641564 035 $a(OCoLC)897450885 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB132885 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001194571 100 $a20180706e20132003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe self in the cell $enarrating the Victorian prisoner /$fSean Grass 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (304 p.) 225 0 $aLiterary criticism and cultural theory 300 $aFirst published in 2003 by Routledge. 311 $a1-306-40514-9 311 $a0-415-94355-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aCONCLUSION Narrative Power and Private Truth: Freud, Foucault, and The Mystery of Edwin DroodNOTES; WORKS CITED; INDEX 330 $aMichel Foucault's writing about the Panopticon in Discipline and Punish has dominated discussions of the prison and the novel, and recent literary criticism draws heavily from Foucauldian ideas about surveillance to analyze metaphorical forms of confinement: policing, detection, and public scrutiny and censure. But real Victorian prisons and the novels that portray them have few similarities to the Panopticon. Sean Grass provides a necessary alternative to Foucault by tracing the cultural history of the Victorian prison, and pointing to the tangible relations between Victorian confine 410 0$aLiterary Criticism and Cultural Theory 606 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPrisoners in literature 606 $aPrisons$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aNarration (Rhetoric)$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSelf in literature 606 $aPrisons in literature 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPrisoners in literature. 615 0$aPrisons$xHistory 615 0$aNarration (Rhetoric)$xHistory 615 0$aSelf in literature. 615 0$aPrisons in literature. 676 $a823/.809355 700 $aGrass$b Sean$f1971-,$01704574 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820820003321 996 $aThe self in the cell$94090686 997 $aUNINA