Place-ing the prison officer : : the 'warder' in the British literary and cultural imagination / / Cornelia Wächter.
The sadistic prison ‘warder’ is an all-too-familiar figure in the literary and cultural imagination of Britain and beyond. This distorted image continues to be informed by the stereotypically oppressive gaolers of old – trailing the figurative stench of the dungeon behind them. Even today, prison of...
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