Captivating Subjects : : Writing Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century / / Jason Haslam, Julia M. Wright.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• TeilnehmendeR: Haslam, Jason,; Wright, Julia M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Ever since Michel Foucault's highly regarded work on prisons and confinement in the 1970s, critical examination of the forerunners to the prison - slavery, serfdom, and colonial confinements - has been rare. However, these institutions inform and participate in many of the same ideologies that the prison enforces.Captivating Subjects is a collection of essays that fills several crucial gaps in the critical examination of the relations between Western state-sanctioned confinement, identity, nation, and literature. Editors Jason Haslam and Julia M. Wright have brought together an esteemed group of international scholars to examine nineteenth-century writings by prisoners, slaves, and other captives, tracing some of the continuities among the varieties of captivity and their crucial relationship to post-Enlightenment subjectivities.This volume is the first sustained examination of the ways in which the diverse kinds of confinement intersect with Western ideologies of subjectivity, investigating the modern nation-state's reliance on captivity as a means of consolidating notions of individual and national sovereignty. It details the specific historical and cultural practices of confinement and their relations to each other and to punishment through a range of national contexts.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Haslam, Jason / Wright, Julia M. -- The Subject of Captivity -- CHAPTER 1. Being Jane War ton: Lady Constance Lytton and the Disruption of Privilege / Haslam, Jason -- CHAPTER 2. Form and Authority in Russian Serf Narratives / MacKay, John -- CHAPTER 3. I, Hereby, Vow to Read The Interesting Narrative / Chakkalakal, Tess -- Captivating Discourses: Class and Nation -- CHAPTER 4. 'From the Slums to the Slums': The Delimitation of Social Identity in Late Victorian Prison Narratives / Lauterbach, Frank -- CHAPTER 5. 'Stone Walls Do (Not) a Prison Make': Rhetorical Strategies and Sentimentalism in the Representation of the Victorian Prison Experience / Fludernik, Monika -- CHAPTER 6. 'National Feeling' and the Colonial Prison: Teeling's Personal Narrative / Wright, Julia M. -- Captivating Otherness -- CHAPTER 7. A Nation in Chains: Barbary Captives and American Identity / Brezina, Jennifer Costello -- CHAPTER 8. A Prison Officer and a Gentleman: The Prison Inspector as Imperialist Hero in the Writings of Major Arthur Griffiths (1838-1908) / Marlin, Christine -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index