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The self in the cell : narrating the Victorian prisoner / Sean Grass
- Author
- Grass, Sean, 1971-
- Published
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 291 pages).
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- Series
- Contents
- Introduction: Solitude, Surveillance, and the Art of the Novel -- Ch. 1. Narrating the Victorian Prisoner -- Ch. 2. Prisoners by Boz: Pickwick Papers and American Notes -- Ch. 3. Charles Reade, the Facts, and Deliberate Fictions -- Ch. 4. "How Not to Do It": Dickens, the Prison, and the Failure of Omniscience -- Ch. 5. The "Marks System": Australia and Narrative Wounding -- Ch. 6. The Self in the Cell: Villette, Armadale, and Victorian Self-Narration -- Conclusion: Narrative Power and Private Truth: Freud, Foucault, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
- Subject(s)
- 1800-1899
- English fiction—19th century—History and criticism
- Prisons—Great Britain—History—19th century
- Narration (Rhetoric)—History—19th century
- Prisoners in literature
- Prisons in literature
- Self in literature
- Roman anglais—19e siècle—Histoire et critique
- Prisons—Grande-Bretagne—Histoire—19e siècle
- Narration—Histoire—19e siècle
- Prisonniers dans la littérature
- Prisons dans la littérature
- Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature
- LITERARY CRITICISM—European—English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- English fiction
- Narration (Rhetoric)
- Prisons
- Romans
- Engels
- Gevangenen
- Gevangenissen
- Retorica
- Zelf
- Prisonniers—Dans la littérature
- Great Britain
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9781135384913 (electronic bk.)
1135384916 (electronic bk.)
0415943558
9780415943550 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-277) and index.
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