Stones of Law, Bricks of Shame: Narrating Imprisonment in by Jan Alber,Frank Lauterbach
By Jan Alber,Frank Lauterbach
The felony process used to be one of many fundamental social problems with the Victorian period and a typical concentration of dialogue one of the period's reformers, novelists, and poets. Stones of legislations, Bricks of Shame brings jointly essays from a large variety of students, who research writings at the Victorian felony method that have been authored no longer via inmates, yet via thinkers from the good center class.
Studying the ways that writings on prisons have been woven into the cloth of the interval, the individuals think of the ways that those works affected inmates, the felony procedure, and the Victorian public. Contesting and lengthening Michel Foucault's rules on strength and surveillance within the Victorian legal procedure, Stones of legislations, Bricks of Shame covers texts from Charles Dickens to Henry James. This crucial quantity will refocus destiny scholarship on felony writing and the Victorian era.
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