This volume describes how literature depicts imprisonment in a wealth of metaphors of confinement in literature from the late middle ages to the present day. As well as carceral metaphors the volume explores how notions of imprisonment extend to other situations such as jobs, ma…
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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 confinin…
"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…
This book describes how literature depicts imprisonment in a wealth of metaphors of confinement in literature from the late middle ages to the present day. As well as carceral metaphors the volume explores how notions of imprisonment extend to other situations such as jobs, marr…
"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…
"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…
How did a nation so famously associated with freedom become internationally identified with imprisonment? After the scandals of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, and in the midst of a dramatically escalating prison population, the question is particularly urgent. In this timely, pr…
