TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alber,Jan
AU  - Lauterbach,Frank
TI  - Stones of Law, Bricks of Shame: Narrating Imprisonment in the Victorian Age 
SN  - 9780802098979
AV  - PR878.P7 S76 2009eb
U1  - 823/.8093554 
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - English fiction
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Imprisonment in literature
KW  - Imprisonment
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - The prison system was one of the primary social issues of the Victorian era and a regular focus of debate among the period?s reformers, novelists, and poets. Stones of Law, Bricks of Shame brings together essays from a broad range of scholars, who examine writings on the Victorian prison system that were authored not by inmates, but by thinkers from the respectable middle class. Studying the ways in which writings on prisons were woven into the fabric of the period, the contributors consider the ways in which these works affected inmates, the prison system, and the Victorian public. Contesting and extending Michel Foucault's ideas on power and surveillance in the Victorian prison system, Stones of Law, Bricks of Shame covers texts from Charles Dickens to Henry James. This essential volume will refocus future scholarship on prison writing and the Victorian era
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ER  -