 | Captivating Subjects: Writing Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century Subjects: Imprisonment -- Western countries -- History -- 19th century -- Sources; Imprisonment -- Social aspects -- Western countries; Prisoners’ writings -- History and criticism; 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. Haslam Jason : Jason Haslam is an associate professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University. Julia M. Wright is a Canada Research Chair in European Studies at Dalhousie University. |
