Lucy Powell recovers lost layers of meaning within the prison scenes which abound in the eighteenth-century novel. Powell reveals prisons' fourfold particularity as cultural and narrative spaces, stressing, with bold originality, the political and social, as opposed to the domestic and interior, aspects of the novel as a form.
Lucy Powell recovers lost layers of meaning within the prison scenes which abound in the eighteenth-century novel. Powell reveals prisons' fourfold particularity as cultural and narrative spaces, stressing, with bold originality, the political and social, as opposed to the domestic and interior, aspects of the novel as a form.
Lucy Powell is a Leverhulme ECR (Early Career Research) fellow at the University of Oxford. She was a New Generation Thinker for the BBC and AHRC and has presented programmes across the network on everything from silence to dreams. Her writing has appeared in Eighteenth-Century Life, Life Writing, The Times, The Sunday Times, and The Guardian, among others.
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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.
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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