Captivating Subjects Writing Confinement Citizenship and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century 1st Edition by Jason Haslam, Julia Wright ISBN 0802089682 978-0802089687

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ISBN 10:  0802089682

ISBN 13:   978-0802089687

Author: Jason Haslam, Julia M. Wright

Ever since Michel Foucault’s highly regarded work on prisons and confinement in the 1970s, critical examination of the forerunners to the prison – slavery, serfdom, and colonial confinements – has been rare. However, these institutions inform and participate in many of the same ideologies that the prison enforces.

Captivating Subjects is a collection of essays that fills several crucial gaps in the critical examination of the relations between Western state-sanctioned confinement, identity, nation, and literature. Editors Jason Haslam and Julia M. Wright have brought together an esteemed group of international scholars to examine nineteenth-century writings by prisoners, slaves, and other captives, tracing some of the continuities among the varieties of captivity and their crucial relationship to post-Enlightenment subjectivities.

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. It details the specific historical and cultural practices of confinement and their relations to each other and to punishment through a range of national contexts.

Table of contents: 

The Subject of Captivity
Captivity and Identity

Being Jane Warton: Lady Constance Lytton and the Disruption of Privilege

Form and Authority in Russian Serf Narratives

I, Hereby, Vow to Read The Interesting Narrative

Captivating Discourses: Class and Nation
4. ‘From the Slums to the Slums’: The Delimitation of Social Identity in Late Victorian Prison Narratives
5. ‘Stone Walls Do (Not) a Prison Make’: Rhetorical Strategies and Sentimentalism in the Representation of the Victorian Prison Experience
6. ‘National Feeling’ and the Colonial Prison: Teeling’s Personal Narrative

Captivating Otherness
7. A Nation in Chains: Barbary Captives and American Identity
8. A Prison Officer and a Gentleman: The Prison Inspector as Imperialist Hero in the Writings of Major Arthur Griffiths (1838–1908)

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