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

Published Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2009 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Gibson Library Connections, 2010)

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 289 pages) 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism Imprisonment in literature. Imprisonment -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English fiction Imprisonment in literature Imprisonment -- Social aspects Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Lauterbach, Frank, editor. Alber, Jan, 1973- editor. ISBN 9781442689206 144268920X

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