Freshly Printed - allow 7 days lead
Couldn't load pickup availability
Stones of Law, Bricks of Shame
Narrating Imprisonment in the Victorian Age
Jan Alber (Author), Frank Lauterbach (Author)
9780802098979
Hardback, published 30 April 2009
336 pages
23.6 x 15.8 x 2.6 cm, 0.58 kg
The prison system was one of the primary social issues of the Victorian era and a regular focus of debate among the period's reformers, novelists, and poets. Stones of Law, Bricks of Shame brings together essays from a broad range of scholars, who examine writings on the Victorian prison system that were authored not by inmates, but by thinkers from the respectable middle class. Studying the ways in which writings on prisons were woven into the fabric of the period, the contributors consider the ways in which these works affected inmates, the prison system, and the Victorian public. Contesting and extending Michel Foucault's ideas on power and surveillance in the Victorian prison system, Stones of Law, Bricks of Shame covers texts from Charles Dickens to Henry James. This essential volume will refocus future scholarship on prison writing and the Victorian era.