Captivating subjects : writing confinement, citizenship, and nationhood in the nineteenth century / / edited by Jason Haslam and Julia M. Wright
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Captivating subjects : writing confinement, citizenship, and nationhood in the nineteenth century / / edited by Jason Haslam and Julia M. Wright
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| Pubblicazione: | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2005 |
| 2005 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (290 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 365/.918/1209034 |
| Soggetto topico: | Imprisonment - Western countries - History - 19th century |
| Imprisonment - Social aspects - Western countries | |
| Prisoners' writings - History and criticism | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | HaslamJason W <1971-> (Jason William) |
| WrightJulia M. | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Captivating subjects |
| ISBN: | 1-4426-7273-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814634903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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