Prison and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Lucy Powell recovers lost layers of meaning within the prison scenes which abound in the eighteenth-century novel. Powell reveals prisons' fourfold particularity as cultural and narrative spaces, stressing, with bold originality, the political and social, as opposed to the domestic and interior, aspects of the novel as a form.

Lucy Powell recupereaza straturi pierdute de sens in scenele de inchisoare care abunda in romanul secolului al XVIII-lea. Powell dezvaluie cvadriparticulitatea inchisorilor ca spatii culturale si narative, subliniind, cu o originalitate indrazneata, aspectele politice si sociale, spre deosebire de cele domestice si interioare, ale romanului ca forma.