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

by Caleb Smith (Author)

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  Paperback
  2011

  $30.54

  Argues that the dehumanization inherent in captivity has always been at the heart of American civil society. This title shows how alienation and self-reliance, social death and spiritual rebirth, torture and penitence came together in the prison, a scene for the portrayal of both gothic nightmares and romantic dreams.