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

by John B. Bender

Book Overview

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 1719 and 1779 helped bring about the change from traditional prisons to penitentiaries, John Bender offers studies of Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, The Beggar's Opera, Hogarth's Progresses, Jonathan...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226042294
• ISBN13: 9780226042299
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 9.4"