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Many of the world's most important historical figures were imprisoned for holding unpopular or unorthodox beliefs. They used their time behind bars to write books that shaped the course of history. This collection of new essays offers a wide-ranging examination of influential works written--in whole or in part--while their authors were in prison or exile. Each chapter explores a different text and contains a brief biography and summary of the circumstances surrounding the author's imprisonment, along with a critical examination of the writing and its legacy. Authors covered include Plato, Thomas Paine, Gandhi, Thoreau, Bertrand Russell, Hitler and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface (J. Ward Regan)
Introduction (J. Ward Regan)
Socrates' Trial and Death by Execution (Farzad Mahootian)
Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy: Why Do the Innocent Suffer? (Heidi White)
Poetic Justice: The Civilization of the Heart in Malory's Morte Darthur (Stephanie Kiceluk)
A Prisoner of Circumstance: Cervantes, Don Quixote and Literary Self-Authorship in the Early Modern Period (Sean Eve)
Thomas Paine and The Age of Reason (J. Ward Regan)
Thoreau's Rhetoric of Resistance (Peter Diamond)
Epistle from Prison: Oscar Wilde's De Profundis [Epistola in Carcere et Vinculis] (Joseph J. Portanova)
Bertrand Russell, World War I and Analytic Philosophy (Phil Washburn)
His Majesty's Hotels: Gandhi's Satyagraha in South Africa (Martin F. Reichert)
Jawaharlal Nehru's Discovery of India: The Writing of History, Fighting for Freedom in Ahmandnager Jail (Tilottama Tharoor)
Drifter's Escape: Adolf Hitler and the Writing of Mein Kampf (Rolf Wolfswinkel)
Antonio Gramsci's The Prison Notebooks: A Humanist Reconstruction of Marxism (Brendan Hogan)
Jean Genet: Our Lady of the Flowers in Prison (Afrodesia E. McCannon)
In the Shadows of Prison: Sayyid Qutb's Visions of a Perfect World (Peter C. Valenti)
Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" and Non-Violent Social Transformation (Joyce Apsel)
About the Contributors
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