Captivating Subjects

Writing Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century
Herausgeber: Haslam, Jason; Wright, Julia M

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume is the first sustained examination of the ways in which the diverse kinds of confinement intersect with Western ideologies of subjectivity, investigating the modern nation-state's reliance on captivity as a means of consolidating notions of individual and national sovereignty.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9781487526146
• ISBN-10: 1487526148
• Artikelnr.: 59080863

Autorenporträt

By Jason Haslam and Julia M. Wright

Inhaltsangabe

Jason Haslam and Julia M. Wright, Introduction
The Subject of Captivity
1. Jason Haslam, 'Being Jane Warton: Lady Constance Lytton and the
Disruption of Privilege'
2. John Mackay, 'Form and Authority in Russian Serf Autobiography'
3. Tess Chakkalakal, 'I, hereby, vow to Read Equiano's Interesting
Narrative'
Captivating Discourses: Class and Nation
4. Frank Lauterbach, 'From the slums to the slums: The Delimitation of
Social Identity in Late Victorian Prison narratives.'
5. Monika Fludernik, 'Stone Walls do (Not) a Prison Make: Fact and Fiction
in Nineteenth-Century Literary and Non-Literary Representations of
Imprisonment"
6. Julia M. Wright, 'National Feeling and the Colonial Prison: Teeling's
Personal Narrative'
Captivating Otherness
7. Jennifer Costello Brezina, 'A Nation in Chains: Barbary Captives and
American Identity
8. Christine Marlin, 'A Prison Officer and a Gentleman: The Prison
Inspector as Imperialist Hero in the Writings of Major Arthur Griffiths
(1838-1908)'