| Contents |
Introduction / Jan Alber and Frank Lauterbach -- Victims or vermin? Contradictions in Dickens's penal philosophy / David Paroissien -- New prisons, new criminals, new masculinity: Dickens and Reade / Jeremy Tambling -- Facing a mirror: Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a thug and the politics of imperial self-incrimination / Matthew Kaiser -- 'Now, now, the door was down': Dickens and excarceration, 1841-2 / Adam Hansen -- Irish prisoners and the indictment of British rule in the writings of William Makepeace Thackeray and Anthony Trollope / Laura Berol -- The poetics of 'pattern penitence': 'pet prisoners' and plagiarized selves / Anna Schur -- Prisoners and prisons in reform tracts of the mid-century / W.B. Carnochan -- Great expectations, self-narration, and the power of the prison / Sean C. Grass -- From 'dry volumes of facts and figures' to stories of 'flesh and blood': the prison narratives of Frederick William Robinson / Anne Schwan -- The sensational prison and the (un)hidden hand of punishment / Jason Haslam -- Prisons of stone and mind: Henry James's The princess Casamassima and In the cage / Greta Olson -- Epilogue: female confinement in Sarah Waters's neo-Victorian fiction / Rosario Arias. |
