Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction and the Architecture of Mind in Eighteenth-Century England by John B. Bender

Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction and the Architecture of Mind in Eighteenth-Century England

John B. Bender

356 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

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This brilliant and insightful contribution to cultural studies investigates the role of literature—particularly the novel—and visual arts in the development of institutions. Arguing the attitudes expressed in narrative literature and art between 1...

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