The Big House

Image and Reality of the American Prison

By:

Stephen Cox

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Icons of America

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The complex and fascinating history of what it’s like “doing time” in the “Big House,” and its influence on the American imagination. “The Big House" is America’s idea of the prison—a huge, tough, ostentatiously oppressive pile of rock, bristling with rules and punishments, overwhelming in size and the intent to intimidate. Stephen Cox tells the story of the American prison—its politics, its sex, its violence, its inability to control itself—and its idealization in American popular culture. This book investigates both the popular images of prison and the realities behind them: problems of control and discipline, maintenance and reform, power and sexuality. It conveys an awareness of the limits of human and institutional power, and of the symbolic and iconic qualities the “Big House” has attained in America’s understanding of itself.

Author Biography:

Stephen Cox is Professor of Literature and Director of the Humanities Program at the University of California, San Diego. His most recent books are The New Testament and Literature, The Woman and the Dynamo, and The Titanic Story.

Release date Australia

February 27th, 2015

Author

Stephen Cox

Series

Icons of America

Pages

256

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

25 b-w illus.

Dimensions

140x210x19

ISBN-13

9780300215083

Product ID

23705614

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