Prison and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Form and Reform
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 30 October 2025
- ISBN 9781009608558
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages230 pages
- Weight 488 g
- Language English 699
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Short description:
A bold analysis illuminating the plurality and sociality of prison scenes in Defoe, Haywood, Fielding, Smollett and Sterne, among others.
MoreLong description:
Drawing on an array of literary, penological, archival, and visual sources, this study explores the abundance of prison scenes in the eighteenth-century British novel. Revealing the four distinct prison cultures of the period, it illuminates how the narrative and ideological meanings of these institutions have been distorted by our long-held fascination with the criminal penitentiaries of the nineteenth century. Ranging from the early Accounts of the Ordinary of Newgate to the prison sackings of the Gordon Riots of 1780, what emerges are not narratives of interiority and autonomous individuation, but something like the opposite of this: tales that stress the interdependence and sociality of eighteenth-century selfhood. Contextualising the carceral scenes of writers like Defoe, Haywood, Sterne, Smollett, and the Fieldings, Prison and the Novel invites us to rethink familiar accounts of the novel as a form, and of what it means to spend time inside.
'Powell's deeply historicised and wide-ranging account of eighteenth-century prisons and the fictional forms in which they appear deftly overturns longstanding assumptions about the shared disciplinary function of prisons and novels in shaping the modern individual.' Juliet Shields, Professor of English, University of Washington
Table of Contents:
Introduction; 1. Criminal prisons: questions of character; 2. Debtors' prisons: questions of justice; 3. The bridewell: questions of class; 4. State prisons: questions of national identity; Conclusion: the Gordon Riots; Bibliography: primary sources; Bibliography: secondary sources; Bibliography: online resources; Index.
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