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The Self in the Cell: Narrating the Victorian Prisoner
The Self in the Cell Narrating the Victorian Prisoner Author:Sean Grass 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 . But real Victorian prisons and the novels that portray them have few similarities to th... more »e 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.« less