Stones of Law, Bricks of Shame: Narrating Imprisonment in the Victorian Age

Jan Alber · Frank Lauterbach

2009 թ. ապր · University of Toronto Press

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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.

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Jan Alber is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Freiburg.

Frank Lauterbach is a lecturer in english and cultural studies at the University of Göttingen