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The Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood
David Rosen
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Hardback. As ideas about personhood - what constitutes a self - have changed over time, so too have ideas about how to represent, shape, or invade the self. Spanning nearly 500 years of cultural and social history, this book examines the ways that literature and surveillance have developed together, as kindred modern practices. Num Pages: 352 pages, 10 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 164 x 27. Weight in Grams: 694.
Spanning nearly 500 years of cultural and social history, this book examines the ways that literature and surveillance have developed together, as kindred modern practices. As ideas about personhood—what constitutes a self—have changed over time, so too have ideas about how to represent, shape, or invade the self. The authors show that, since the Renaissance, changes in observation strategies have driven innovations in literature; literature, in turn, has provided a laboratory and forum for the way we think about surveillance and privacy. Ultimately, they contend that the habits of mind cultivated by literature make rational and self-aware participation in contemporary ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300155419
SKU
V9780300155419
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About David Rosen
David Rosen is associate professor of English at Trinity College, and Aaron Santesso is associate professor of Literature at Georgia Tech.
Reviews for The Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood
“An ambitious, illuminating, and convincing book. I have rarely been so excited and enlightened by the argument of a literary study as I was by this.”—Edward Mendelson, Columbia University
Edward Mendelson "The Watchman in Pieces is an erudite, major addition to surveillance studies. Like Weber, Habermas, and Foucault, though with many differences, the authors are 'rethinking the history of ... Read more
Edward Mendelson "The Watchman in Pieces is an erudite, major addition to surveillance studies. Like Weber, Habermas, and Foucault, though with many differences, the authors are 'rethinking the history of ... Read more