The Self in the Cell : Narrating the Victorian Prisoner
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
ISBN-10
0415943558
ISBN-13
9780415943550
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 21st, 2003
Print length
304 Pages
Weight
536 grams
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writersPrisons
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This work examines the emergence of the separate confinement penitentiary in England, the demand for autobiography that the prison imposed and the ways the prison's demand for self narrative shaped Victorian novels about the private self.
Michel 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 confinement and the narrative production of the self. The Self in the Cell examines the ways in which separate confinement prisons, with their demand for autobiographical production, helped to provide an impetus and a model that guided novelists'' explorations of the private self in Victorian fiction.
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