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Imagining the penitentiary : fiction and the architecture of mind in eighteenth-century England

John B. Bender (Author)
Print Book, English, 1987
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1987
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xvii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 337 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780226042282, 9780226042299, 0226042286, 0226042294
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Prison and the novel as cultural systems
The novel and the rise of the penitentiary: Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe
The city and the rise of the penitentiary: A journal of the plague year
General conflict and reformist discourse in Gay and Hogarth
Narration and "civil power": Jonathan Wild in Fielding's career
Fielding and the juridical novel
The aesthetic of isolation as social system
The absorptive tableau and the public execution: a postscript on transparency as practice