Prisons, Asylums, and the Public : : Institutional Visiting in the Nineteenth Century / / Janet Miron.

• VerfasserIn: Miron, Janet,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

The prisons and asylums of Canada and the United States were a popular destination for institutional tourists in the nineteenth-century. Thousands of visitors entered their walls, recording and describing the interiors, inmates, and therapeutic and reformative practices they encountered in letters,...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. The Establishment of Custodial Institutions and the Early Practice of Visiting
• 2. Open Doors: Welcoming the Public into Prisons and Asylums
• 3. 'You Must Go!': Visitors to Prisons and Asylums
• 4. 'I Am Even Afraid That She Put Her Tongue Out': Inmate and Patient Responses to Visitors
• 5. 'What We Saw with Our Own Eyes': Visiting and Nineteenth- Century Culture
• 6. 'To Avoid Exposure and Publicity': Opposition to Visiting
• 7. 'Behind Closed Doors': The Changing Relationship between Custodial Institutions and Society
• Conclusion
• Appendix: The Setting
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index