The Self in the Cell : Narrating the Victorian Prisoner. Sean C. Grass
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Author: Sean C. Grass
Page Count: 304 pages
Published Date: 30 Nov 2015
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781138981621
Download Link: The Self in the Cell Narrating the Victorian Prisoner
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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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