Romantic outlaws, beloved prisons
Subtitle: the unconscious meanings of crime and punishment
By: Martha Grace Duncan.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Prison psychology; Criminal psychology; Prisons in literature; Criminals in literature
Description: In developing her unique vision, Duncan draws on literature, history, psychoanalysis, and law. Her work reveals a non-utopian world in which criminals and non-criminals - while injuring each other in obvious ways - nonetheless live together in a symbiotic as well as an adversarial relationship, needing each other, serving each other, enriching each other's lives in profound and surprising fashion.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-262) and index.