Captivating Subjects
Subtitle:  Writing Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century
Contributors: Jason Haslam (Editor); Julia M. Wright (Editor)
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: August 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780802089687
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Sources; Literary Criticism; History; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Social aspects; Prisoners' writings; General; Penology; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Western countries; 19th century; History and criticism; Imprisonment
First sentence: While the origins of the modern prison are generally posited in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the exact workings of the prison went through a distinct change as the nineteenth century came to an end.