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245 14 a| The prison and the American imaginationh| [electronic resource] /c| Caleb Smith.;

260 a| New Haven :b| Yale University Press,;

300 a| x, 258 p. :b| ill. ;c| 25 cm.;

490 1 a| Yale studies in English.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| Civil death and carceral life -- Cadaverous triumphs -- The meaning of solitude -- Captivity and consciousness -- Mississippi voices -- Frontiers of captivity.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| How did a nation so famously associated with freedom become internationally identified with imprisonment? After the scandals of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, and in the midst of a dramatically escalating prison population, the question is particularly urgent. In this timely, provocative study, Caleb Smith argues that the dehumanization inherent in captivity has always been at the heart of American civil society. Exploring legal, political, and literary texts - including the works of Dickinson, Melville, and Emerson - Smith 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. Demonstrating how the "cellular soul" has endured since the antebellum age, The Prison and the American Imagination offers a passionate and haunting critique of the very idea of solitude in American life.;

538 a| Mode of access: World Wide Web;

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The prison and the American imagination / Caleb Smith.

Author/creator	Smith, Caleb, 1977-
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	New Haven : Yale University Press,
Description	x, 258 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	American literature--History and criticism. Imprisonment in literature. Prisoners--United States. --Intellectual life. Prisons in literature.

Series	Yale studies in English. Yale studies in English. ^A16086
Contents	Civil death and carceral life -- Cadaverous triumphs -- The meaning of solitude -- Captivity and consciousness -- Mississippi voices -- Frontiers of captivity.
Abstract	How did a nation so famously associated with freedom become internationally identified with imprisonment? After the scandals of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, and in the midst of a dramatically escalating prison population, the question is particularly urgent. In this timely, provocative study, Caleb Smith argues that the dehumanization inherent in captivity has always been at the heart of American civil society. Exploring legal, political, and literary texts - including the works of Dickinson, Melville, and Emerson - Smith 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. Demonstrating how the "cellular soul" has endured since the antebellum age, The Prison and the American Imagination offers a passionate and haunting critique of the very idea of solitude in American life.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2009002868
ISBN	9780300141665 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	0300141661 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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