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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsJason Haslam and Julia M. Wright, Introduction The Subject of Captivity 1. Jason Haslam, 'Being Jane Warton: Lady Constance Lytton and the Disruption of Privilege' 2. John Mackay, 'Form and Authority in Russian Serf Autobiography' 3. Tess Chakkalakal, 'I, hereby, vow to Read Equiano's Interesting Narrative' Captivating Discourses: Class and Nation 4. Frank Lauterbach, 'From the slums to the slums: The Delimitation of Social Identity in Late Victorian Prison narratives.' 5. Monika Fludernik, 'Stone Walls do (Not) a Prison Make: Fact and Fiction in Nineteenth-Century Literary and Non-Literary Representations of Imprisonment" 6. Julia M. Wright, 'National Feeling and the Colonial Prison: Teeling's Personal Narrative' Captivating Otherness 7. Jennifer Costello Brezina, 'A Nation in Chains: Barbary Captives and American Identity 8. Christine Marlin, 'A Prison Officer and a Gentleman: The Prison Inspector as Imperialist Hero in the Writings of Major Arthur Griffiths (1838-1908)'
