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Author Grass, Sean, 1971-

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

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 291 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Literary criticism and cultural theory
Literary criticism and cultural theory.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-277) and index.
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. "Marks System": Australia and Narrative Wounding -- Ch. 6. Self in the Cell: Villette, Armadale, and Victorian Self-Narration -- Conclusion: Narrative Power and Private Truth: Freud, Foucault, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
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Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Prisons -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Prisons.
Great Britain.
History.
Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Prisoners in literature.
Prisoners in literature.
Prisons in literature.
Prisons in literature.
Self in literature.
Self in literature.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Grass, Sean, 1971- Self in the cell 0415943558 (DLC) 2002153815 (OCoLC)51046808
ISBN 9781135384913 (electronic book)
1135384916 (electronic book)
0415943558
9780415943550