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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 »
ISBN-13: 9780415943550
ISBN-10: 0415943558
Publication Date: 3/21/2003
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Routledge
Book Type: Hardcover
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