writing confinement, citizenship, and nationhood in the nineteenth century
Edición de la obra Captivating Subjects
| Autor | Julia M. Wright, Jason Haslam |
|---|---|
| Editorial | University of Toronto Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 2005 |
| Lugar | Toronto, Buffalo |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 270 |
| ISBN-10 | 0802089682 |
| OCLC | 57474315 |
| LCCN | 2006272794 |
| Número de Cutter | W951c |
"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."--BOOK JACKET.