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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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- The retreat of allegory
- The liberal panopticon
- Inviolate personality
- The return of allegory
- Towards a theory of liberal reading.