Victorian Literature and Social Control

Through a vigorous analysis of Oliver Twist (1838) and David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens, Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) by Anne Brontë, the intent of this dissertation is to examine how literature of the Victorian era reflects a disciplinary age. Using Michael Foucault's Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1977) as a key theoretical source, this discussion will track the development of the modern prison through my literary texts.

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Nicole Whitaker completed a BA (Hons) degree in English in 2012 specialising in sociological and criminological theories at work in literature. She has a keen interest in the fin-de-siècle and the literature of World War I. Her favourite book is Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.