The Prison and the American Imagination (Yale Studies in English) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Prison and the American Imagination (Yale Studies in English) Book

Argues that the dehumanization inherent in captivity has always been at the heart of American civil society. Exploring legal, political, and literary texts, this book shows how alienation and self-reliance, torture and penitence came together in the prison, a scene for the portrayal of both gothic nightmares and romantic dreams.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    How did a nation so famously associated with freedom become internationally identified with imprisonment? After the scandals of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, and in the midst of a dramatically escalating prison population, the question is...

  • 0300141661
  • 9780300141665
  • C Smith
  • 8 September 2009
  • Yale University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 272
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