Cambria Press 2007 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 316 p.

Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Narrating the Prison: Role and Representation in Charles Dickens' Novels, Twentieth-Century Fiction, and Film. ISBN 1934043605 9781934043608 [GB]

Hardback. New. ISBN 1934043605 9781934043608 [GB]

ISBN10: 1934043605, ISBN13: 9781934043608, [publisher: Cambria Press] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book investigates the ways in which Charles Dickens's mature fiction, prison novels of the twentieth century, and prison films narrate the prison. To begin with, this study illustrates how fictional narratives occasionally depart from the realities of prison life, and interprets these narrations of the prison against the foil of historical analyses of the experience of imprisonment in Britain and America. Second, this book addresses the significance of prison metaphors in novels and films, and uses them as starting points for new interpretations of the narratives of its corpus. Finally, this study investigates the ideological underpinnings of prison narratives by addressing the question of whether they generate cultural understandings of the legitimacy or illegitimacy of the prison.While Dickens's mature fiction primarily represents the prison experience in terms of the unjust suffering of many sympathetic inmates, prison narratives of the twentieth century tend to focus on one newcomer who is sent to prison because he committed a trivial crime and then suffers under a brutal system. And while the fate of this unique character is represented as being terrible and unjust, the attitude towards the mass of ordinary prisoners is complicit with the common view that 'real' criminals have to be imprisoned. Su ...
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