{"product_id":"the-self-in-the-cell-sean-c-grass-9781138981621","title":"The Self in the Cell: Narrating the Victorian Prisoner","description":"Michel Foucault's writing about the Panopticon in \u003cem\u003eDiscipline and Punish\u003c\/em\u003e has dominated discussions of the prison and the novel, and recent literary criticism draws heavily from Foucauldian ideas about surveillance to analyze metaphorical forms of confinement: policing, detection, and public scrutiny and censure. But real Victorian prisons and the novels that portray them have few similarities to the Panopticon. Sean Grass provides a necessary alternative to Foucault by tracing the cultural history of the Victorian prison, and pointing to the tangible relations between Victorian confinement and the narrative production of the self. \u003cem\u003eThe Self in the Cell\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eexamines\u003c\/em\u003e the ways in which separate confinement prisons, with their demand for autobiographical production, helped to provide an impetus and a model that guided novelists' explorations of the private self in Victorian fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sean C. Grass\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1138981621\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138981621\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/27\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 303\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d","brand":"Sean C. Grass","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44063789285631,"sku":"9781138981621","price":62.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_37db9f6e-badb-400a-b7c2-7121c9d83c0f.jpg?v=1685391659","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-self-in-the-cell-sean-c-grass-9781138981621","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}