Informationen zum Autor Michele Lise Tarter is an associate professor of English at the College of New Jersey. She is coeditor of "A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early America." Richard Bell is an assistant professor of history at the University of Maryland! College Park. He is the author of "We Shall Be No More: Suicide and Self-Government in the Newly United States." Klappentext Offers the first critical examination of the experience of imprisonment in early America. These interdisciplinary essays investigate several carceral institutions to show how confinement shaped identity, politics, and the social imaginary both in the colonies and in the new nation. Zusammenfassung Offers the first critical examination of the experience of imprisonment in early America. These interdisciplinary essays investigate several carceral institutions to show how confinement shaped identity! politics! and the social imaginary both in the colonies and in the new nation.

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Offers the first critical examination of the experience of imprisonment in early America. These interdisciplinary essays investigate several carceral institutions to show how confinement shaped identity, politics, and the social imaginary both in the colonies and in the new nation.