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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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical Issues in Crime and Society
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 7 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- 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