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John Bender

Imagining the Penitentiary

Fiction and the Architecture of Mind in Eighteenth-Century England

356 pages, 71 halftones, frontispiece     © 1987

Paper $32.50

ISBN: 9780226042299   Published December 1989

Illustrations and Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1. Prison and the Novel as Cultural Systems
2. The Novel and the Rise of the Penitentiary: Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe
3. The City and the Rise of the Penitentiary: A Journal of the Plague Year
4. Generic Conflict and Reformist Discourse in Gay and Hogarth
5. Narration and "Civil Power": Jonathan Wild in Fielding's Career
6. Fielding and the Juridical Novel
7. The Aesthetic of Isolation as Social System
8. The Absorptive Tableau and the Public Execution: A Postscript on Transparency as Practice
Notes
Index
Awards
  • Christian Gauss Award
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