{"product_id":"9780802089687","title":"Captivating Subjects: Writing Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eEver since Michel Foucault's highly regarded work on prisons and confinement in the 1970s, critical examination of the forerunners to the prison - slavery, serfdom, and colonial confinements - has been rare. However, these institutions inform and participate in many of the same ideologies that the prison enforces.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaptivating Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of essays that fills several crucial gaps in the critical examination of the relations between Western state-sanctioned confinement, identity, nation, and literature. Editors Jason Haslam and Julia M. Wright have brought together an esteemed group of international scholars to examine nineteenth-century writings by prisoners, slaves, and other captives, tracing some of the continuities among the varieties of captivity and their crucial relationship to post-Enlightenment subjectivities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume is the first sustained examination of the ways in which the diverse kinds of confinement intersect with Western ideologies of subjectivity, investigating the modern nation-state's reliance on captivity as a means of consolidating notions of individual and national sovereignty. It details the specific historical and cultural practices of confinement and their relations to each other and to punishment through a range of national contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026108694768,"sku":"9780802089687","price":74.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802089687_p0.jpg?v=1763726413","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802089687","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}