01504 a2200253 4500 1138981621 20250317100415.0 250312042015GB eng 9781138981621 Taylor & Francis GBP 49.99 BB 01 eng D thema D bic LIT000000 bisac LIT004120 bisac 823.809355 bisac Sean C. Grass Self in the Cell Narrating the Victorian Prisoner 1 Oxford Routledge 20151127 303 p Michel 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. 2849 2849