Stones of law, bricks of shame : narrating imprisonment in the Victorian age / edited by Jan Alber and Frank Lauterbach.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lauterbach, Frank.

Alber, Jan, 1973-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Imprisonment in literature.

Imprisonment--Social aspects--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Imprisonment.

Imprisonment--Social aspects.

History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

vi, 289 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2009]

Contents:

1 Victims or Vermin? Contradictions in Dickens's Penal Philosophy / David Paroissien 25

2 New Prisons, New Criminals, New Masculinity: Dickens and Reade / Jeremy Tambling 46

3 Facing a Mirror: Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug and the Politics of Imperial Self-Incrimination / Matthew Kaiser 70

4 'Now, now, the door was down': Dickens and Excaceration, 1841-2 / Adam Hansen 89

5 Irish Prisoners and the Indictment of British Rule in the Writings of William Makepeace Thackeray and Anthony Trollope / Laura Berol 112

6 The Poetics of 'Pattern Penitence': 'Pet Prisoners' and Plagiarized Selves / Anna Schur 134

7 Prisoners and Prisons in Reform Tracts of the Mid-Century / W.B. Carnochan 154

8 Great Expectations, Self-Narration, and the Power of the Prison / Sean C. Grass 171

9 From 'Dry Volumes of Facts and Figures' to Stories of 'Flesh and Blood': The Prison Narratives of Frederick William Robinson / Anne Schwan 191

10 The Sensational Prison and the (Un)Hidden Hand of Punishment / Jason Haslam 213

11 Prisons of Stone and Mind: Henry James's The Princess Casamassima and In the Cage / Greta Olson 233

12 Epilogue: Female Confinement in Sarah Waters's Neo-Victorian Fiction / Rosario Arias 256.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780802098979

0802098975

OCLC:

271433220