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

Robin Evans

ISBN 10: 052118133X / ISBN 13: 9780521181334

Published by Cambridge University Press 2011-08-11, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Fabrication of Virtue: English Prison Architecture, 1750-1840
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2011-08-11
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052118133X
• ISBN 13: 9780521181334
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This 1982 book describes a new kind of prison architecture that developed in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

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.