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
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