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

Bender, John

 
9780226042282: Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction and the Architecture of the Mind in Eighteenth-century England

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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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John Bender is Jean G. and Morris M. Doyle Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies at Stanford University, in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature. Imagining the Penitentiary was awarded the 1987 Louis Gottschalk Prize of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

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ISBN 10:  0226042294 ISBN 13:  9780226042299
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1989
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