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Representations of convicts in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French culture

Falgas-Ravry, CéciliaUniversity of Cambridge2014

From the 1820s, forçats were widely portrayed in French culture across a variety of fictional and non-fictional genres. This thesis analyses this ‘convict tradition’, and relates it to the emergence of industrial literature in France, with its resolutely reader-centred approach. It argues that …

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