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Convict Voices: Women, Class, and Writing about Prison in Nineteenth-Century England

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Convict Voices: Women, Class, and Writing about Prison in Nineteenth-Century England - Schwan, Anne
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In this lively study of the development and transformation of voices of female offenders in nineteenth-century England, Anne Schwan analyzes a range of colorful sources, including crime broadsides, reform literature, prisoners' own writings about imprisonment and courtroom politics, and conventional literary texts, such as Adam Bede and The Moonstone. Not only does Schwan demonstrate strategies for interpreting ambivalent and often contradictory texts, she also provides a carefully historicized approach to the work of ...

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Convict Voices: Women, Class, and Writing about Prison in Nineteenth-Century England 2014, University Press of New England

ISBN-13: 9781611686715

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Convict Voices: Women, Class, and Writing about Prison in Nineteenth-Century England 2014, University Press of New England

ISBN-13: 9781611686722

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