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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Studying the ways in which writings on prisons were woven into the fabric of the period, the contributors to this volumen consider the ways in which these works affected inmates, the prison system, and the Victorian public.

Contents:

Introduction / Jan Alber and Frank Lauterbach

Victims or vermin? Contradictions in Dickens's penal philosophy / David Paroissien

New prisons, new criminals, new masculinity: Dickens and Reade / Jeremy Tambling

Facing a mirror: Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a thug and the politics of imperial self-incrimination / Matthew Kaiser

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

Irish prisoners and the indictment of British rule in the writings of William Makepeace Thackeray and Anthony Trollope / Laura Berol

The poetics of 'pattern penitence': 'pet prisoners' and plagiarized selves / Anna Schur

Prisoners and prisons in reform tracts of the mid-century / W.B. Carnochan

Great expectations, self-narration, and the power of the prison / Sean C. Grass

From 'dry volumes of facts and figures' to stories of 'flesh and blood': the prison narratives of Frederick William Robinson / Anne Schwan

The sensational prison and the (un)hidden hand of punishment / Jason Haslam

Prisons of stone and mind: Henry James's The princess Casamassima and In the cage / Greta Olson

Epilogue: female confinement in Sarah Waters's neo-Victorian fiction / Rosario Arias.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

1-4426-9313-4

1-4426-8920-X

OCLC:

923772432