Captivating Subjects : Writing Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century Hardback
Edited by Jason Haslam, Julia M. Wright
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:290 pages
- Publisher:University of Toronto Press
- Publication Date:20/08/2005
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- ISBN:9780802089687
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:290 pages
- Publisher:University of Toronto Press
- Publication Date:20/08/2005
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- ISBN:9780802089687