The Self in the Cell by Sean C Grass
Michel Foucault's writing about the Panopticon in Discipline and Punish has dominated discussions of the prison and the novel, and recent literary criticism draws heavily from Foucauldian ideas about surveillance to analyze metaphorical forms of confinement: policing, detection, and public scrutiny and censure. But real Victorian prisons and the novels that portray them have few similarities to the Panopticon. Sean Grass provides a necessary alternative to Foucault by tracing the cultural history of the Victorian prison, and pointing to the tangible relations between Victorian confinement and the narrative production of the self. The Self in the Cell examines the ways in which separate confinement prisons, with their demand for autobiographical production, helped to provide an impetus and a model that guided novelists' explorations of the private self in Victorian fiction.-
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Through the Negative
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Joseph Conrad and Honor
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Queer Reading Practices and Sexology in Fin-de-Siècle Literature
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Authoring the Self
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Revised Lives
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Voice of the Oppressed in the Language of the Oppressor
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Parsing the City
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Racial Blasphemies
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New Approaches to the Doppelganger in Literature and Culture
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Representations of Language Learning and Literacy
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Transcending Postmodernism
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Writing the City
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Re-Reading Golden Age Crime Writing
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Embodying Beauty
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The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel
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Fictional Feminism
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Dissenting Fictions
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Double Trouble
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Strange Cases
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Like Parchment in the Fire
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Novel Notions
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Sean Grass is the author of The Self in the Cell: Narrating the Victorian Prisoner (2003) and essays on Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Christina Rossetti, among others. He is an Associate Professor of English at Iowa State University, USA.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781138981621 |
| ISBN 10 | 1138981621 |
| Title | The Self in the Cell |
| Author | Sean C Grass |
| Series | Literary Criticism And Cultural Theory |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2015-11-27 |
| Number of pages | 303 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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