Dickens and CrimeIndiana University Press, 1968 - 371 pàgines |
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Pàgina 123
... cell - blocks . To increase the prison's capacity , a second storey was added to these blocks , thus enabling men to talk quite easily to those housed above them , particularly during exer- cise in the individual yards attached to the cells ...
... cell - blocks . To increase the prison's capacity , a second storey was added to these blocks , thus enabling men to talk quite easily to those housed above them , particularly during exer- cise in the individual yards attached to the cells ...
Pàgina 124
... cell , until he clamoured for work , and for something to read . Tools , and a Bible , were given to him , though liable to be withdrawn at any time as a punishment . Then he settled down to the unchanging routine of the prison . ' His ...
... cell , until he clamoured for work , and for something to read . Tools , and a Bible , were given to him , though liable to be withdrawn at any time as a punishment . Then he settled down to the unchanging routine of the prison . ' His ...
Pàgina 128
... cell - ' Conceive the situation of a man spending his last night on earth in this cell . . . ' - and of the Fagin chapter in Oliver Twist . Most of his readers were duly moved by this passage . For instance , Lord Jeffrey , the old ...
... cell - ' Conceive the situation of a man spending his last night on earth in this cell . . . ' - and of the Fagin chapter in Oliver Twist . Most of his readers were duly moved by this passage . For instance , Lord Jeffrey , the old ...
Continguts
DICKENS AND HIS AGE | 1 |
NEWGATE | 27 |
THE SILENT SYSTEMCOLDBATH FIELDS PRISON | 52 |
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American appeared capital punishment cell certainly chaplains chapter character Charles Dickens Chesterton Coldbath Fields convicts course Coutts crime criminal critics Daily death described Detective Dickens Dickens's discussed earlier Edwin Drood effect English execution experience expressed fact feel fiction Fields Forster further gaol girls give hanging Home hope House human idea imagination interest Jasper kind later least less letters living London look magistrates March means mind Miss moral murder mystery never Newgate novels object officers Oliver opinion penal Pentonville period person police present prison Punch punishment question quoted Reading reason recent reference reform remarks Report respect Review Scotland Yard seems seen sentence Separate social society story suggested thing thought tion visited whole writing written wrote young
Referències a aquest llibre
Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture Amanda Anderson Visualització de fragments - 1993 |
Crime, Protest, Community, and Police in Nineteenth-century Britain David J. V. Jones Visualització de fragments - 1982 |