LEADER 03201nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910820935503321 005 20240418003714.0 010 $a1-282-35324-1 010 $a9786612353246 010 $a0-300-15630-8 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300156300 035 $a(CKB)2430000000010764 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050108 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000306904 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11192728 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000306904 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10308646 035 $a(PQKB)10509184 035 $a(DE-B1597)486219 035 $a(OCoLC)586098252 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300156300 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420588 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10348485 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235324 035 $a(OCoLC)923594793 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420588 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000010764 100 $a20090122d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe prison and the American imagination /$fCaleb Smith 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (320 p.) 225 0 $aYale Studies in English 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-14166-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tIntroduction -- $tPart One. Buried Alive -- $tPart Two. Born Again -- $tPart Three. Afterlives -- $tEpilogue -- $tNotes -- $tSelected Bibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aHow did a nation so famously associated with freedom become internationally identified with imprisonment? After the scandals of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, and in the midst of a dramatically escalating prison population, the question is particularly urgent. In this timely, provocative study, Caleb Smith argues that the dehumanization inherent in captivity has always been at the heart of American civil society.Exploring legal, political, and literary texts-including the works of Dickinson, Melville, and Emerson-Smith shows how alienation and self-reliance, social death and spiritual rebirth, torture and penitence came together in the prison, a scene for the portrayal of both gothic nightmares and romantic dreams. Demonstrating how the "cellular soul" has endured since the antebellum age, The Prison and the American Imagination offers a passionate and haunting critique of the very idea of solitude in American life. 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aImprisonment in literature 606 $aPrisoners$zUnited States$xIntellectual life 606 $aPrisons in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aImprisonment in literature. 615 0$aPrisoners$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aPrisons in literature. 676 $a810.9/9206927 700 $aSmith$b Caleb$f1977-$01617135 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820935503321 996 $aThe prison and the American imagination$94076092 997 $aUNINA