Prison and the novel in eighteenth-century Britain : form and reform /
"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 in...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2025.
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| Summary: | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781009608558 100960855X 9781009608527 1009608525 |