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This brilliant and insightful contribution to cultural studies investigates the role of literatureparticularly the noveland visual arts in the development of institutions. Arguing the attitudes expressed in narrative literature and art between 1719 and 1779 helped bring about the change from traditional prisons to penitentiaries, John Bender offers studies of Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, The Beggar's Opera, Hogarth's Progresses, Jonathan Wild, and Amelia as well as illustrations from prison literature, art, and architecture in support of his thesis.

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    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 15/12/1989
    ISBN13: 9780226042299, 978-0226042299
    ISBN10: 0226042294

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    Book Synopsis
    This brilliant and insightful contribution to cultural studies investigates the role of literatureparticularly the noveland visual arts in the development of institutions. Arguing the attitudes expressed in narrative literature and art between 1719 and 1779 helped bring about the change from traditional prisons to penitentiaries, John Bender offers studies of Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, The Beggar's Opera, Hogarth's Progresses, Jonathan Wild, and Amelia as well as illustrations from prison literature, art, and architecture in support of his thesis.

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