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The Self in the Cell - Narrating the Victorian Prisoner (Paperback)
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The Self in the Cell - Narrating the Victorian Prisoner (Paperback)
Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
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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:
policing, detection, and public scrutiny and censure. But real
Victorian prisons and the novels that portray them have few
similarities to the 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. The
Self in the Cellexamines the ways in which separate confinement
prisons, with their demand for autobiographical production, helped
to provide an impetus and a model that guided novelists'
explorations of the private self in Victorian fiction.
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