Keywords:
Criminals in literature
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Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
An ex-convict struggles with his addictive yearning for prison. A law-abiding citizen broods over his pleasure in violent, illegal acts. A prison warden loses his job because he is so successful in rehabilitating criminals. These are but a few of the intriguing stories Martha Grace Duncan examines in her bold, interdisciplinary book Romantic Outlaws, Beloved Prisons . Duncan writes: "This is a book about paradoxes and mingled yarns - about the bright sides of dark events, the silver linings of sable clouds." She portrays upright citizens who harbor a strange liking for criminal deeds
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
Online-Ressource (286 p.)
ISBN:
9780814718803
URL:
http://gbv.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=865365
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=865365
URL:
http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780814718803.pdf
DDC:
364.3
Language:
English
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE Cradled on the Sea: Positive Images of Prison and Theories of Punishment; CHAPTER 1 A Thousand Leagues Above: Prison As a Refuge from the Prosaic; CHAPTER 2 Cradled on the Sea: Prison As a Mother Who Provides and Protects; CHAPTER 3 To Die and Become: Prison As a Matrix of Spiritual Rebirth; CHAPTER 4 Flowers Are Flowers: Prison As a Place Like Any Other; CHAPTER 5 Methodological Issues; CHAPTER 6 Positive Images of Prison and Theories of Punishment; Epilogue to Part One
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PART TWO A Strange Liking: Our Admiration for CriminalsPrologue to Part Two; CHAPTER 7 Reluctant Admiration: The Forms of Our Conflict over Criminals; CHAPTER 8 Rationalized Admiration: Overt Delight in Camouflaged Criminals; CHAPTER 9 Repressed Admiration: Loathing As a Vicissitude of Attraction to Criminals; Conclusion to Part Two: This Unforeseen Partnership; PART THREE In Slime and Darkness: The Metaphor of Filth in Criminal Justice; Prologue to Part Three; CHAPTER 10 Eject Him Tainted Now: The Criminal As Filth in Western Culture
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CHAPTER 11 Projecting an Excrementitious Mass: The Metaphor of Filth in the History of Botany BayCHAPTER 12 Stirring the Odorous Pile: Vicissitudes of the Metaphor in Britain and the United States; Conclusion to Part Three: Metaphor Understood; Conclusion: The Romanticization of Criminals and the Defense against Despair; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
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