Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy

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Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy
Copyright
Dedication
Preface
	Chapter Overview
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Typographical Conventions
Introduction: Prisons, Images of Confinement, and the Carceral Imaginary
	0.1 Confinement and Flight: Preliminaries
	0.2 Prison—History and Theory: Beyond Foucault
	0.3 Spatial Symbolism and Carceral Topography
		0.3.1 Inside/Out: The Carceral Container Metaphor
		0.4 Topology and Tropology: Some Definitions
		0.5 Metaphorics: Metaphor Theory and the Carceral
		0.6 Ideology and Metaphor: The Carceral Imaginary
1: The Prison as World—The World as Prison: Similitudes and Homologies
	1.1 Prisons, Worlds, and Counterworlds
	1.2 The Prison as World: Elizabethan and Jacobean Similitudes
	1.3 Renaissance Comedy: The ‘Old’ Prison
	1.4 The Prison as Microcosm of General Depravity: Counterworlds and the Shift from Prison as World to World as Prison
	1.5 The World as Prison: From More to Beckett and Bond
		1.5.1 Metaphor into Metonymy
		1.5.2 Carceral Allegory and the Return to Social Criticism
	1.6 Summary
2: Poeta in Vinculis I: Textualizations of the Carceral Experience
	2.1 Writing and Confinement
	2.2 Autobiographical vs. Fictional Representations of the Carceral
	2.3 Sir Thomas More: The World as Prison
		2.3.1 (Auto)biographical More
		2.3.2 Why Imprisonment Need Not be Feared: The World as Prison Trope
		2.3.3 A Meditation on Christ’s Sacrifice
	2.4 Bunyan’s Carceral Metaphorics
		2.4.1 Bunyan in Jail
		2.4.2 Bunyan’s Carceral Poetics
		2.4.3 Bunyan and the Prison Experience in Poetry
3: Poeta in Vinculis II: The Twentieth Century
	3.1 The Perspective from Below: Brendan Behan (1923–1964)
		3.1.1 Farce and Farts: The Quare Fellow
		3.1.2 Irish Martyr and Borstal Scout
	3.2 Ken Saro-Wiwa: Prison Satires in a Neocolonial Setting
	3.3 Breyten Breytenbach: Parable and the Sublimation of the Prison Experience in Language
	3.4 Summary
4: Prisons as Homes and Homes as Prisons: From the Happy Prison to Strangulation by Domesticity
	4.1 Binary Oppositions and their Reversals
	4.2 Homes and Prisons
		4.2.1 Cocooning Oneself for Life: Emily Dickinson’s Poetics of Confinement
		4.2.2 Dickens’s Carceral Homes: Metaphor and Psychology
	4.3 The Home as Tomb and Gothic Fantasies of Live Burial
		4.3.1 Hawthorne’s Home as Prison: The House of the Seven Gables
	4.4 The Shackles of Marriage: The Home as Prison
	4.5 Domestic Dungeons: Marital Confinement in the Home
		4.5.1 The Domestic Tragedy of Marriage
		4.5.2 ‘To Room Nineteen’: Choking on Freedom
		4.5.3 Insidious Patriarchy and the Working Woman: ‘Weekend’
	4.6 Summary
5: The Prison as Cage: Abjection and Transcendence
	5.1 Prisoners as Animals
	5.2 Metaphoric Cages in Literature
		5.2.1 ‘Like a Bird i’th’Cage’: The Golden Cage Trope
		5.2.2 ‘Like wild beasts in a cage’: The Prowl of the Fierce and the Despair of the Weak
		5.3 Prison Cages in Breytenbach and O’Neill: The Cage-Like Prison in Literature
			5.3.2 Eugene O’Neill’s Working Man as Caged Ape
		5.4 Soaring on the Wings of the Spirit—Fantasies of Escape or Transcendence
			5.4.1 Caleb Williams and the Subversion of Carceral Topoi
			5.4.2 Romantic Inflections: Poetic Dungeons of Horror and Transcendence
			5.4.3 The Imagination as Avenue of Escape
6: The Cancer of Punitivity: Prisons of Slavery and Hell
	6.1 Crimes of Justice: Penal Hell in ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’
	6.2 From the Crime of Imprisonment to the Crime of Punishment: Mead, Shaw, Menninger, and Wilson
	6.3 Vindictive Justice: The Lure of Punitivity
	6.4 Colonialism as Carcerality
		6.4.1 The Colonial Roots of Punitivity
		6.4.2 Colonial Surveillance; or, Strickland among the Natives
		6.4.3 Slavery and Carcerality
		6.4.4 Colonial Imprisonment as Slavery on Robben Island
	6.5 Real-Life Abjection in the Neocolonial Prison Archipelago
	6.6 Summary
7: Industry and Idleness: Discipline and Punishment in the Capitalist Prison
	7.1 Work as Punishment
	7.2 Work, Silence, and Solitude
	7.3 The Victorian Convict Prison
	7.4 Prison Work in British Literature: It is Never Too Late to Mend: Work as Torture
	7.5 The Factory as Prison in the Victorian Novel and its American Equivalents up until Modernism
		7.5.1 Romantic Anti-Industrialism and the Factories
		7.5.2 Prison, Slavery, and Hell: Fleetwood as a Factory Novel
		7.5.3 Factories, Slavery, and Prisons in the 1840s
		7.5.4 Carceral Working Conditions: Melville and Sinclair
	7.6 Summary
8: Enthralment and Bondage: Love as a Prison
	8.1 ‘Fast Bound in Misery and Iron’: Mary Cholmondeley’s Prisoners
	8.2 Fettered by Love: The prison amoureuse Topos in English Literature
		8.2.1 ‘Martyr I am and prisonere’
		8.2.2 Prisoners as Lovers in Renaissance Religious and Secular Verse
	8.3 Love as Bondage: The Sadeian Tradition in English Literature
		8.3.1 Cruel Ladies
		8.3.2 Masochism in Literature
		8.3.3 Angela Carter’s Poetics of Cruelty
	8.4 Love versus Bondage: Dryden’s All for Love
	8.5 Summary
9: Prisons of Femininity
	9.1 Women’s Double Confinement in the Penitentiary
	9.2 Feminism and Queer Inflections of the Panopticon
		9.2.1 Allegories of Femininity: Carceral Parables in Nights at the Circus
		9.2.2 Linking Criminality and Madness: Sarah Waters’s Affinity and Fingersmith
	9.3 Domesticity and the Body
		9.3.1 Communal Surveillance and Sexual Abuse: Maps for Lost Lovers
		9.3.2 Trifles: Domestic Confinement
	9.4 Avenues of Escape: Transgressions into Madness
		9.4.1 Driving You Mad: Confinement Breeds Insanity
		9.4.2 Verging on the Insane: Female Creativity and the Prison of Conventional Gender Roles
	9.5 Women’s Prisons: A Summary
10: Conclusions: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Carcerality
	10.1 Carceral Spaces
	10.2 Carceral Metaphorics
		10.2.1 The Historical Range of Carceral Metaphors
		10.2.2 Prison is x Metaphors
		10.2.3 The Mind in Chains: Prison-Houses of Language, Morality, or Ideology
	10.3 The Ambivalences of Carceral Topography and Metaphorics
	10.4 The Aesthetics of Carcerality
		10.4.1 Poetic Confinement
	10.5 The Ethical Imperative: The Cultural Role of the Literary Prison and the Politics of Incarceration
APPENDIX
	Methodological Note on the Statistics
Works Cited
	1. Texts
	2. Criticism
	3. Online Sources
Author Index
Subject Index