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Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction and the Architecture of Mind in Eighteenth-Century England

Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction and the Architecture of Mind in Eighteenth-Century England

Bender, John

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Literary CriticismCriminologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0226042294
ISBN13: 9780226042299
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Dec 15 1989
Pages: 356
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.60 Depth: 9.38
Language: English
This brilliant and insightful contribution to cultural studies investigates the role of literature--particularly the novel--and visual arts in the development of institutions. Arguing the attitudes expressed in narrative literature and art between 1719 and 1779 helped bring about the change from traditional prisons to penitentiaries, John Bender offers studies of Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, The Beggar's Opera, Hogarth's Progresses, Jonathan Wild, and Amelia as well as illustrations from prison literature, art, and architecture in support of his thesis.

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