The watchman in pieces : surveillance, literature, and liberal personhood /

Spanning nearly 500 years of cultural and social history, this book examines the ways that literature and surveillance have developed together, as kindred modern practices. As ideas about personhood -- what constitutes a self -- have changed over time, so too have ideas about how to represent, shape...

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Main Author: Rosen, David, 1971-
Other Authors: Santesso, Aaron, 1972-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
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