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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Superior document: | Spatial Practices, 21 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, New York, New York : : Rodopi,, 2014. ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Spatial practices ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (357 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary material / Editors Place-ing the Prison Officer
- Introduction / Editors Place-ing the Prison Officer
- Deconstructing the Stereotype: History and Theoretical Framework / Editors Place-ing the Prison Officer
- The ‘Warder’ Writes Back: Prison Officer Memoirs / Editors Place-ing the Prison Officer
- Voice-ing the Prison Officer / Editors Place-ing the Prison Officer
- Conclusion and Outlook / Editors Place-ing the Prison Officer
- Works Cited / Editors Place-ing the Prison Officer
- Index / Editors Place-ing the Prison Officer.