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British Romanticism and Prison Reform: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850

Autor Jonas Cope
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 dec 2024
In eighteenth-century Britain, criminals were routinely whipped, branded, hanged, or transported to America. Only in the last quarter of the century—with the War of American Independence and legal and sociopolitical challenges to capital punishment—did the criminal justice system change, resulting in the reformed prison, or penitentiary, meant to educate, rehabilitate, and spiritualize even hardened felons. This volume is the first to explore the relationship between historical penal reform and Romantic-era literary texts by luminaries such as Godwin, Keats, Byron, and Austen. The works examined here treat incarceration as ambiguous: prison walls oppress and reinforce the arbitrary power of legal structures but can also heighten meditation, intensify the imagination, and awaken the conscience. Jonas Cope skillfully traces the important ideological work these texts attempt: to reconcile a culture devoted to freedom with the birth of the modern prison system that presents punishment as a form of rehabilitation.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781684485352
ISBN-10: 1684485355
Pagini: 242
Ilustrații: 1 B-W image
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.06 kg
Editura: Bucknell University Press
Colecția Bucknell University Press
Seria Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850


Notă biografică

JONAS COPE is an associate professor of English at California State University, Sacramento. He is the author of The Dissolution of Character in Late Romanticism, 18201839.

Cuprins

List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1          Solitary Confinement: “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison”
2          William Godwin, “Mild Coercion,” and the Happy Prison Tradition
3          The Descent of Liberty: Leigh Hunt in Surrey Gaol
4          Keats, Byron, and the Idea of Transformative Confinement
5          John Clare: The Romantic Ascent
6          Jane Austen and Penitential Space
Coda
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index

Descriere

British Romanticism and Prison Reform is the first full-length study to explore and define the close relationship between British Romantic literary texts, on the one hand, and the birth of the modern prison, on the other, giving long overdue attention to the revolution in punishment coterminous with the age we call Romantic.