Title Reading prisoners : literature, literacy, and the transformation of American punishment, 1700-1845 / Jodi Schorb

Published New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource Series Critical issues in crime and society Critical issues in crime and society. Contents Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. A Is for Aardvark -- Part One. Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Gaol -- 1. Books Behind Bars -- 2. Crime, Ink -- Part Two. Literacy in the Early Penitentiary -- 3. What Shall a Convict Do -- 4. Written by One Who Knows -- Afterword. Good Convict, Good Citizen? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author Summary Shining new light on early American prison literature-from its origins in last words, dying warnings, and gallows literature to its later works of autobiography, exposé, and imaginative literature-Reading Prisoners weaves together insights about the rise of the early American penitentiary, the history of early American literacy instruction, and the transformation of crime writing in the "long" eighteenth century. Looking first at colonial America-an era often said to devalue jailhouse literacy-Jodi Schorb reveals that in fact this era launched the literate prisoner into public prominence Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Corrections -- United States -- History Prisoners as authors -- United States -- History Literacy programs -- United States -- History Prisoners -- Education -- United States -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology. Corrections Literacy programs Prisoners as authors Prisoners -- Education United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780813562681 0813562686

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