British Romanticism and Prison Reform

British Romanticism and Prison Reform is the first full-length study to explore and define the close relationship between British Romantic literary texts, on the one hand, and the birth of the modern prison, on the other, giving long overdue attention to the revolution in punishment coterminous with the age we call Romantic.

List of contents

List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1          Solitary Confinement: “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison”
2          William Godwin, “Mild Coercion,” and the Happy Prison Tradition
3          The Descent of Liberty: Leigh Hunt in Surrey Gaol
4          Keats, Byron, and the Idea of Transformative Confinement
5          John Clare: The Romantic Ascent
6          Jane Austen and Penitential Space
Coda
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index

About the author

JONAS COPE is an associate professor of English at California State University, Sacramento. He is the author of The Dissolution of Character in Late Romanticism, 1820–1839.

Summary

British Romanticism and Prison Reform is the first full-length study to explore and define the close relationship between British Romantic literary texts, on the one hand, and the birth of the modern prison, on the other, giving long overdue attention to the revolution in punishment coterminous with the age we call Romantic.

Product details

• Authors: Jonas Cope
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.03.2025
• EAN: 9781684485369
• ISBN: 978-1-68448-536-9
• No. of pages: 242
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 239 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies