Main entry:

Evans, Robin, 1944-1993.

Title & Author:

The fabrication of virtue : English prison architecture, 1750-1840 / Robin Evans.

Publication:

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Description:

xx, 464 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine derived contents note: List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Another world, yet the same; 2. From correction to reformation; from dungeon to cell; 3. Gaol fever; 4. Penitentiaries and reformed prisons; 5. A way of obtaining power; 6. Classification, inspection and labour; 7. Architecture against communication; 8. The Model Prison; 9. The uncoupling of architecture and reform; 10. Architecture limited and unlimited; Notes; Index.

Summary:

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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0521239559
9780521239554

Subject:

Prisons England Design and construction History.
Prisons history
Architecture history
Prisons Angleterre Construction Histoire.
Prisons Design and construction.
Bouwkunst.
Gevangenissen.
Prisons Great Britain Design and construction History.
Prisons Grande-Bretagne.
England.
England Prisons Architecture 1750-1840

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 69524
Call No.: W14078; ID:86-B10741
Status: Available