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Book Synopsis"Prison haunts our civilization," writes Victor Brombert. "Object of fear, it is also a subject of poetic reverie." Focusing on French literature of the Romantic era, the author probes the manifold significance of imprisonment as symbol and metaphor of the human condition. His thematic exploration draws on a constellation of writers ranging from th
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*1. Introduction: The Prison Dream, pg. 3*2. Pascal's Dungeon, pg. 18*3. The Myth of the Bastille, pg. 30*4. Petrus Borel: Prison and the Gothic Tradition, pg. 49*5. Stendhal: The Happy Prison, pg. 62*6. Victor Hugo: The Spaceless Prison, pg. 88*7. Nerval's Privileged Enclosures, pg. 120*8. Baudelaire: Confinement and Infinity, pg. 133*9. Huysmans: The Prison House of Decadence, pg. 149*10. Servitude and Solidarity, pg. 173*11. Sartre and the Drama of Ensnarement, pg. 185*12. Epilogue: The Borderline Zone, pg. 200*Notes, pg. 211*Bibliography, pg. 227*Index of Proper Names, pg. 237
