{"product_id":"captivating-subjects-jason-haslam-9780802089687","title":"Captivating Subjects: Writing Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eEver since Michel Foucault's highly regarded work on prisons and confinement in the 1970s, critical examination of the forerunners to the prison - slavery, serfdom, and colonial confinements - has been rare. However, these institutions inform and participate in many of the same ideologies that the prison enforces.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eCaptivating Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of essays that fills several crucial gaps in the critical examination of the relations between Western state-sanctioned confinement, identity, nation, and literature. Editors Jason Haslam and Julia M. Wright have brought together an esteemed group of international scholars to examine nineteenth-century writings by prisoners, slaves, and other captives, tracing some of the continuities among the varieties of captivity and their crucial relationship to post-Enlightenment subjectivities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume is the first sustained examination of the ways in which the diverse kinds of confinement intersect with Western ideologies of subjectivity, investigating the modern nation-state's reliance on captivity as a means of consolidating notions of individual and national sovereignty. It details the specific historical and cultural practices of confinement and their relations to each other and to punishment through a range of national contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jason Haslam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0802089682\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802089687\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/20\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Jason Haslam","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065134887167,"sku":"9780802089687","price":88.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cd70a15b-dc02-49fb-9b4a-1fc077b6a813.jpg?v=1768673223","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/captivating-subjects-jason-haslam-9780802089687","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}