Reading Prisoners : : Literature, Literacy, and the Transformation of American Punishment, 1700-1845 / / Jodi Schorb.
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 histo...
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Schorb, Jodi, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Reading Prisoners : Literature, Literacy, and the Transformation of American Punishment, 1700-1845 / Jodi Schorb. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (256 p.) : 7 illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Critical Issues in Crime and Society Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. A Is for Aardvark: A Prison Literacy Primer -- Part One. Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century "Gaol" -- 1. Books Behind Bars: Reading Prisoners on the Scaffold -- 2. Crime, Ink: The Rise of the Writing Prisoner -- Part Two. Literacy in the Early Penitentiary -- 3. "What Shall a Convict Do?": Reading and Reformation in Philadelphia's Early Penitentiaries -- 4. Written by One Who Knows: Congregate Literacy in New York Prisons -- Afterword: Good Convict, Good Citizen? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Criminal confessions published between 1700 and 1740, she shows, were crucial "literacy events" that sparked widespread public fascination with the reading habits of the condemned, consistent with the evangelical revivalism that culminated in the first Great Awakening. By century's end, narratives by condemned criminals helped an audience of new writers navigate the perils and promises of expanded literacy. Schorb takes us off the scaffold and inside the private world of the first penitentiaries-such as Philadelphia's Walnut Street Prison and New York's Newgate, Auburn, and Sing Sing. She unveils the long and contentious struggle over the value of prisoner education that ultimately led to sporadic efforts to supply prisoners with books and education. Indeed, a new philosophy emerged, one that argued that prisoners were best served by silence and hard labor, not by reading and writing-a stance that a new generation of convict authors vociferously protested. The staggering rise of mass incarceration in America since the 1970s has brought the issue of prisoner rehabilitation once again to the fore. Reading Prisoners offers vital background to the ongoing, crucial debates over the benefits of prisoner education. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021) Corrections United States History. Literacy programs United States History. Prisoners as authors United States History. Prisoners Education United States History. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. bisacsh print 9780813562674 https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813562681 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813562681 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780813562681.jpg |
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