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Contents
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Foreword |
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Acknowledgments |
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Chapter One: Introduction |
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Chapter Two: What is a Prison |
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The ‘Old’ and the ‘New’ Prison System in Great Britain |
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The ‘Birth’ of the Penitentiary in the United States |
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The Experience of Imprisonment |
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Chapter Three: The Dark Dungeons in Charles Dickens’ Novels and their Film Adaptations |
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The Prison as All-Embracing Shadow in Little Dorrit |
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Prisons, Inmates, and the Prison Experience |
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The Prison as World and Forms of Metaphorical Imprisonment |
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The Prison and the Novel’s Narrative Structure |
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“I Hope You Care to Be Recalled to Life?”: Incarceration in A Tale of Two Cities |
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The Imprisonment of Dr. Manette |
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Charles Darnay’s Time in Prison |
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The Rulers Who Run the Prison |
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The Internalization of the Prison in Great Expectations |
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Pip’s Guilt Complex in the Novel |
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The Prison and Interiority in the Film |
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Two Views on Mental Confinement |