Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Victims or Vermin? Contradictions in Dickens’s Penal Philosophy 25
6. 2. New Prisons, New Criminals, New Masculinity: Dickens and Reade 46
7. 3. Facing a Mirror: Philip Meadows Taylor’s Confessions of a Thug and the Politics of Imperial Self-Incrimination 70
8. 4. ‘Now, now, the door was down’: Dickens and Excarceration, 1841–2 89
9. 5. Irish Prisoners and the Indictment of British Rule in the Writings of William Makepeace Thackeray and Anthony Trollope 112
10. 6. The Poetics of ‘Pattern Penitence’: ‘Pet Prisoners’ and Plagiarized Selves 134
11. 7. Prisoners and Prisons in Reform Tracts of the Mid-Century 154
12. 8. Great Expectations, Self-Narration, and the Power of the Prison 171
13. 9. From ‘Dry Volumes of Facts and Figures’ to Stories of ‘Flesh and Blood’: The Prison Narratives of Frederick William Robinson 191
14. 10. The Sensational Prison and the (Un)Hidden Hand of Punishment 213
15. 11. Prisons of Stone and Mind: Henry James’s The Princess Casamassima and In the Cage 233
16. 12. Epilogue: Female Confinement in Sarah Waters’s Neo-Victorian Fiction 256
17. Contributors 279
18. Index 283