Captivating Subjects : : Writing Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century / / Jason Haslam, Julia M. Wright.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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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