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 ; 21.
Physical Description:1 online resource (357 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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