Imagining the penitentiary : fiction and the architecture of mind in eighteenth-century England / John Bender.

Main entry:

Bender, John B., author.

Title & Author:

Imagining the penitentiary : fiction and the architecture of mind in eighteenth-century England / John Bender.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Description:

xvii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 337 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-313) and index.
Prison and the novel as cultural systems -- The novel and the rise of the penitentiary: Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe -- The city and the rise of the penitentiary: A journal of the plague year -- General conflict and reformist discourse in Gay and Hogarth -- Narration and "civil power": Jonathan Wild in Fielding's career -- Fielding and the juridical novel -- The aesthetic of isolation as social system -- The absorptive tableau and the public execution: a postscript on transparency as practice.

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ISBN:

0226042286
9780226042282
0226042294
9780226042299

Subject:

English fiction 18th century History and criticism.
Prisons in literature.
Crime in literature.
Law in literature.
Prisons England History 18th century.
Art, English.
Art and literature England History 18th century.
Literature and society England History 18th century.
Prisons history
Literature, Modern
Roman anglais 18e siècle Histoire et critique.
Droit dans la littérature.
Prisons dans la littérature.
Art anglais.
Art et littérature Angleterre Histoire 18e siècle.
Prisons Angleterre Histoire 18e siècle.
Littérature et société Angleterre Histoire 18e siècle.
Criminalité dans la littérature.
Art and literature.
English fiction.
Literature and society.
Prisons.
Littérature anglaise 18e siècle Histoire et critique.
Prisons Grande-Bretagne Histoire 18e siècle.
Art et littérature Grande-Bretagne Histoire 18e siècle.
Crimes et criminels dans la littérature anglaise.
Loi dans la littérature.
English
England.
Fiction in English, 1702-1800. Special themes: Prisons - Critical studies

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 16978
Call No.: ID:87-B16367
Status: Available

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