Idiots, Madmen, and Other Prisoners in Dickens

By Natalie McKnight

Influenced by feminism and Michel Foucault, this study explores Dickens's fascination with prisoners of private worlds and languages, suggesting that his attitude toward these figures was influenced by 19th-century prison and asylum reforms, holy idiot/wise fool traditions and his own experiences with imprisonment.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312085966
• ISBN13: 9780312085964
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.8"