01477    a2200241   4500001001100000005001700011008003900028020001800067037003600085040000700121041000800128072001300136072001100149072002100160072002100181072002200202100001800224245005500242250000600297260003200303300001000335520089000345113898162120250317100415.0250312042015GB                   eng    a9781138981621  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 49.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aD2thema7 aD2bic7 aLIT0000002bisac7 aLIT0041202bisac7 a823.8093552bisac1 aSean C. Grass10aSelf in the CellbNarrating the Victorian Prisoner  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20151127  a303 p  bMichel Foucault's writing about the Panopticon in Discipline and Punish has dominated discussions of the prison and the novel, and recent literary criticism draws heavily from Foucauldian ideas about surveillance to analyze metaphorical forms of confinement: policing, detection, and public scrutiny and censure. But real Victorian prisons and the novels that portray them have few similarities to the Panopticon. Sean Grass provides a necessary alternative to Foucault by tracing the cultural history of the Victorian prison, and pointing to the tangible relations between Victorian confinement and the narrative production of the self. The Self in the Cell examines the ways in which separate confinement prisons, with their demand for autobiographical production, helped to provide an impetus and a model that guided novelists' explorations of the private self in Victorian fiction.