Stones of law, bricks of shame
Subtitle: narrating imprisonment in the Victorian age
By: edited by Jan Alber and Frank Lauterbach
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780802098979
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Jan Alber and Frank Lauterbach; title: Victims or vermin? Contradictions in Dickens's penal philosophy / David Paroissien; title: New prisons, new criminals, new masculinity: Dickens and Reade / Jeremy Tambling; title: Facing a mirror: Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a thug and the politics of imperial self-incrimination / Matthew Kaiser; title: 'Now, now, the door was down': Dickens and excarceration, 1841-2 / Adam Hansen; title: Irish prisoners and the indictment of British rule in the writings of William Makepeace Thackeray and Anthony Trollope / Laura Berol; title: The poetics of 'pattern penitence': 'pet prisoners' and plagiarized selves / Anna Schur; title: Prisoners and prisons in reform tracts of the mid-century / W.B. Carnochan; title: Great expectations, self-narration, and the power of the prison / Sean C. Grass; title: From 'dry volumes of facts and figures' to stories of 'flesh and blood': the prison narratives of Frederick William Robinson / Anne Schwan; title: The sensational prison and the (un)hidden hand of punishment / Jason Haslam; title: Prisons of stone and mind: Henry James's The princess Casamassima and In the cage / Greta Olson; title: Epilogue: female confinement in Sarah Waters's neo-Victorian fiction / Rosario Arias.