The Fabrication of Virtue: English Prison Architecture, 1750–1840 - Softcover

Evans, Robin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052118133X ISBN 13: 9780521181334

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

First published in 1982, this book describes a new kind of prison architecture that developed in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The book concentrates on architecture, but places it in the context of contemporary penal practice and contemporary thought. Beginning with an exploration on the eighteenth-century prisons before reform, the book goes on to consider two earlier kinds of imprisonment that were modified by eighteenth-century reformers. The theory and practice of prison design is covered in detail. The later parts of the book deals with alliance between architecture and reform, and with the connection between the utilitarian architecture of the reformed prisons and academic neo-classicism. The overall aim of the book is to show the profound change that was being wrought in the nature of architecture, which was exemplified in the reformed prisons. Architecture, one emblem of the social order, was now one of its fundamental instruments.

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Book Description:

This 1982 book describes a new kind of prison architecture that developed in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The book places architecture in the context of contemporary penal practice and thought. The book shows the profound change in the nature of architecture, exemplified in the reformed prisons.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 052118133X
• ISBN 13: 9780521181334
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 486