Title The self in the cell : narrating the Victorian prisoner / Sean Grass

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 291 pages) Series Literary criticism and cultural theory Literary criticism and cultural theory. 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-277) and index Notes Print version record Subject 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. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English fiction Narration (Rhetoric) Prisoners in literature Prisons Prisons in literature Self in literature Romans. Engels. Gevangenen. Gevangenissen. Retorica. Zelf. Roman anglais -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique. Prisonniers -- Dans la littérature. Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781135384913 1135384916

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