Examination, Surveillance and Confession in Victorian and Late 20th Century Texts
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21153/pecl2005vol15no1art1259Keywords:
discipline, surveillance, confession, adolescent subjectivity, Michel Foucault, twentieth centuryAbstract
Despite the overt differences in themes and foci between the Victorian period and the 1990s, fictional children from both eras are still represented as subject to, and constructed by, disciplinary forces. My focus in this essay is on the extent to which tropes of examination, surveillance and confession appear in texts from both eras as elements of a regime intended to form adolescent subjects.
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