Captivating Subjects : Writing Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century.

Captivating Subjects : Writing Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century.

This volume is the first sustained examination of the ways in which the diverse kinds of confinement intersect with Western ideologies of subjectivity, investigating the modern nation-state's reliance on captivity as a means of consolidating notions of individual and national sovereignty.

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Main Author: Haslam, Jason
Other Authors: Wright, Julia M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Imprisonment > Western countries > History > 19th century > Sources.
Imprisonment > Social aspects > Western countries > Sources.
Prisoners' writings > History and criticism.
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