Captivating subjects
Subtitle: writing confinement, citizenship, and nationhood in the nineteenth century
By: edited by Jason Haslam and Julia M. Wright
Contributors: Wright, Julia M; Haslam, Jason W. 1971-
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Imprisonment -- Western countries -- History -- 19th century -- Sources; Imprisonment -- Social aspects -- Western countries; Prisoners' writings -- History and criticism
Genres: Sources
Description: "Captivating Subjects is a collection of essays that fills several crucial gaps in the critical examination of the relations between Western state-sanctioned confinement, identity, nation, and literature. Editors Jason Haslam and Julia M. Wright have brought together an esteemed group of international scholars to examine nineteenth-century writings by prisoners, slaves, and other captives, tracing some of the continuities among the varieties of captivity and their crucial relationship to post-Enlightenment subjectivities." "This volume is the first sustained examination of the ways in which the diverse kinds of confinement intersect with Western ideologies of subjectivity, investigating the modern nation-state's reliance on captivity as a means of consolidating notions of individual and national sovereignty. It details the specific historical and cultural practices of confinement and their relations to each other and to punishment through a range of national contexts."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-261) and index