Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction and the Architecture of Mind in Eighteenth-Century England PDF
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masrin raS Pemtentiar and Mind Fiction the Architecture of in Eighteenth-Century England ohn Bender BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Imagining the Penitentiary Imagining the Penitentiary and Mind Fiction the Architecture of in Eighteenth-Century England J Jl 11 | ^ | "Wmm^ ^ 1 John Bender THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS Chicago and London John Bender, professor of English and comparative literature at Stanford University, is the author of SpenserandLiteraryPictorialism. Published with the assistance ofthe Paul Getty Trust. J. The University ofChicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University ofChicago Press, Ltd., London © 1987 by The University ofChicago All rights reserved. Published 1987 Printed in the United States ofAmerica 96 95 94 93 92 91 9° 89 88 87 54321 Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bender,John B. Imagining the penitentiary. Bibliography: p. Includes index. — — 1. English fiction 18th century History and criticism. 2. Prisons in literature. 3. Crime and criminals i—n literature—. 4. Law—in literature. 5. Prisons England History —18th cent—ury. 6. A—rt, English. 7. Art and literature England History 18th century. I. Title. PR858.P7.B4 1987 823'.5'o9355 86-25074 ISBN 0-226-04228-6 TO Ann Williams Bender Digitized by the Internet Archive 2015 in https://archive.org/details/imaginingpenitenOObend 1 Contents Illustrations and Acknowledgments • ix Preface xv • Introduction • 1 1 • Prison and the Novel as Cultural Systems - 1 2 • The Novel and the Rise of the Penitentiary: Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe • 43 3 • The City and the Rise of the Penitentiary: AJournal ofthe Plague Year • 63 4 • Generic Conflict and Reformist Discourse in Gay and Hogarth • 87 5 • Narration and "Civil Power":Jonathan Wild in Fielding's Career • 139 6 • Fielding and the Juridical Novel • 165 7 • The Aesthetic of Isolation as Social System - 201 8 The Absorptive Tableau and the Public Execution: • A Postscript on Transparency as Practice • 231 Notes • 253 Index • 315
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