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'Powell's deeply historicised and wide-ranging account of eighteenth-century prisons and the fictional forms in which they appear deftly overturns longstanding assumptions about the shared disciplinary function of prisons and novels in shaping the modern individual.' Juliet Shields, Professor of English, University of Washington 'Prison and the Novel reconfigures the classic debate about incarceration in the age of Enlightenment. Powell's powerful new focus on political economy and legal institutions points us towards the crucial distinctions: between criminal confinement, and the restraint of debtors; between bridewells, and state prisons like the Tower of London.' Paddy Bullard, Associate Professor of English, University of Reading

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Lucy Powell is a Leverhulme ECR (Early Career Research) fellow at the University of Oxford. She was a New Generation Thinker for the BBC and AHRC and has presented programmes across the network on everything from silence to dreams. Her writing has appeared in Eighteenth-Century Life, Life Writing, The Times, The Sunday Times, and The Guardian, among others.

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