Jail sentences : representing prison in twentieth-century French fiction / Andrew Sobanet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sobanet, Andrew.

Series:

Stages

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

French fiction.

Prisons in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A long list of canonical writers in Western literature have experienced incarceration and have subsequently written celebrated works about the imprisoned and the condemned. The French tradition is no exception: writers who produced noteworthy texts while incarcerated or who later wrote about their experiences in prison are found on the literary-historical landscape from the medieval era through the twentieth century. Prison writing by inmates, former guards, chaplains, teachers, and doctors is firmly established as part of the fabric of popular culture and has long attracted the attention of c

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Everyman in Prison; 2. A Pariah's Paradise; 3. A Recidivist's Tale; 4. Corrected Inmates, Corrected Texts; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-239) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-95821-2

9786611958213

0-8032-1855-9

OCLC:

317754120