Review
“Smith’s book is remarkably inventive and wide-ranging with its close interweaving of literature and history, its refusal to rely slavishly on Foucault, its close reading, and its refreshingly lucid style.”—Terry Eagleton
(Terry Eagleton 20091111)
“There is no book on literary culture and the ideology of the prison that even approaches this one in terms of historical range and subtlety of argument.”—Benjamin Reiss, Emory University
(Benjamin Reiss )
“A beautifully written and haunting book, The Prison and the American Imagination reorients how we think about the penitentiary, solitary confinement, and the living death of incarceration. With depth and great range, it moves with surety and passion from ancient penance to a transcendentalist aesthetic of solitude to the afterlives of captivity in the twentieth century.”—Colin Dayan, author of The Story of Cruel and Unusual
(Colin Dayan )
“Through this wonderfully rich historical and literary study, Caleb Smith peers into the heart of the U.S. national imaginary and finds there the prison, with its logics of solitude, captivity, confinement, and mortification.”—Michael Hardt, Duke University
(Michael Hardt )
"In Smith''s haunting and incisive work—he writes beautifully— he wonders how a nation that has been obsessed by the idea of freedom from its outset could have become so identified with incarceration..." - Jay Parini, Chronicle of Higher Education
(Jay Parini
Chronicle of Higher Education )
"How did we get here? What do our prisons mean to us, the citizens of a nation founded on ideals of personal freedom? What do we expect them to accomplish, and why? These questions lie at the heart of [Smith''s] mesmerizing new book..." - Macy Halfor, New Yorker, Book Bench Blog
(Macy Halford
New Yorker, Book Bench Blog )
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