Monika Fludernik is Professor of English at the University of Freiburg. Her areas of research are narratology, postcolonial theory, Law and Literature studies, and the eighteenth century. Her teaching covers the whole breadth of English literature from the Middle Ages to the present, including poetry, drama, and narrative prose. Monika Fludernik was the director of the collaborative research centre "Identities and Alterities" (SFB 541) and is currently the director of a graduate school (GRK 1767) on "Factual and Fictional Narration". In addition to her monographs and numerous edited volumes, she has published over one hundred essays, the majority in refereed journals such as Style, Narrative, Poetics Today, Journal of Literary Semantics, Text, Semiotica, Language and Literature, The Journal of Pragmatics, Diacritics, English Literary History, PMLA and The James Joyce Quarterly. She is a member of the Austrian Academy of Science and the Academia Europaea.

• Introduction: Prisons, Images of Confinement and the Carceral Imaginary 1: The Prison as World: The World as Prison: Similitudes and Homologies 2: Poeta in Vinculis I: Textualizations of the Carceral Experience 3: Poeta in Vinculis II: The Twentieth Century 4: Prisons as Homes and Homes as Prisons: From the Happy Prison to Strangulation by Domesticity 5: The Prison as Cage: Abjection and Transcendence 6: The Cancer of Punitivity: Prisons of Slavery and Hell 7: Industry and Idleness: Discipline and Punishment in the Capitalist Prison 8: Enthralment and Bondage: Love as a Prison 9: Prisons of Femininity 10: Conclusions: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Carcerality Appendix Works Cited

...it is a valuable resource to anyone aiming to explore the use of metaphors of confinement at a specific point in time with a view 280 Reviews to the cultural work they perform.

Monika Fludernik is Professor of English at the University of Freiburg. Her areas of research are narratology, postcolonial theory, Law and Literature studies, and the eighteenth century. Her teaching covers the whole breadth of English literature from the Middle Ages to the present, including poetry, drama, and narrative prose. Monika Fludernik was the director of the collaborative research centre "Identities and Alterities" (SFB 541) and is currently the director of a graduate school (GRK 1767) on "Factual and Fictional Narration". In addition to her monographs and numerous edited volumes, she has published over one hundred essays, the majority in refereed journals such as Style, Narrative, Poetics Today, Journal of Literary Semantics, Text, Semiotica, Language and Literature, The Journal of Pragmatics, Diacritics, English Literary History, PMLA and The James Joyce Quarterly. She is a member of the Austrian Academy of Science and the Academia Europaea.

• Introduction: Prisons, Images of Confinement and the Carceral Imaginary 1: The Prison as World: The World as Prison: Similitudes and Homologies 2: Poeta in Vinculis I: Textualizations of the Carceral Experience 3: Poeta in Vinculis II: The Twentieth Century 4: Prisons as Homes and Homes as Prisons: From the Happy Prison to Strangulation by Domesticity 5: The Prison as Cage: Abjection and Transcendence 6: The Cancer of Punitivity: Prisons of Slavery and Hell 7: Industry and Idleness: Discipline and Punishment in the Capitalist Prison 8: Enthralment and Bondage: Love as a Prison 9: Prisons of Femininity 10: Conclusions: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Carcerality Appendix Works Cited

...it is a valuable resource to anyone aiming to explore the use of metaphors of confinement at a specific point in time with a view 280 Reviews to the cultural work they perform.

Monika Fludernik is Professor of English at the University of Freiburg. Her areas of research are narratology, postcolonial theory, Law and Literature studies, and the eighteenth century. Her teaching covers the whole breadth of English literature from the Middle Ages to the present, including poetry, drama, and narrative prose. Monika Fludernik was the director of the collaborative research centre "Identities and Alterities" (SFB 541) and is currently the director of a graduate school (GRK 1767) on "Factual and Fictional Narration". In addition to her monographs and numerous edited volumes, she has published over one hundred essays, the majority in refereed journals such as Style, Narrative, Poetics Today, Journal of Literary Semantics, Text, Semiotica, Language and Literature, The Journal of Pragmatics, Diacritics, English Literary History, PMLA and The James Joyce Quarterly. She is a member of the Austrian Academy of Science and the Academia Europaea.

• Introduction: Prisons, Images of Confinement and the Carceral Imaginary 1: The Prison as World: The World as Prison: Similitudes and Homologies 2: Poeta in Vinculis I: Textualizations of the Carceral Experience 3: Poeta in Vinculis II: The Twentieth Century 4: Prisons as Homes and Homes as Prisons: From the Happy Prison to Strangulation by Domesticity 5: The Prison as Cage: Abjection and Transcendence 6: The Cancer of Punitivity: Prisons of Slavery and Hell 7: Industry and Idleness: Discipline and Punishment in the Capitalist Prison 8: Enthralment and Bondage: Love as a Prison 9: Prisons of Femininity 10: Conclusions: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Carcerality Appendix Works Cited

...it is a valuable resource to anyone aiming to explore the use of metaphors of confinement at a specific point in time with a view 280 Reviews to the cultural work they perform.