"Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy offers a historical survey of imaginings of the prison as expressed in carceral metaphors in a range of texts about imprisonment from Antiquity to the present as well as non-penal situations described as confini…
"Readings in Syrian Prison Literature" is a comprehensive study of the contemporary genre of prison literature (adab al-sujun) produced by political detainees in Syria over the past five decades. It examines the intertwined relationships between prison writings, oppositional pol…
"Because of their visibility in society and ability to shape public opinion, prominent literary figures were among the first targets of Communist repression, torture, and incarceration. Authors such as Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn famously documented the experience of internment in So…
"Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established th…
"The first full-length study of prison life writing, this book shows how the autobiographical literature of incarcerated people is consistently based on a conversion narrative, the same narrative that underpins prison rehabilitation. By demonstrating how prison life writing inte…
"Newgate in Revolution is an anthology of radical literature issued by the radicals and religious dissenters imprisoned in Newgate in the late eighteenth century." "Including satirical, political and philosophical writings, Newgate in Revolution offers a representative selection…
