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Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood

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Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood - Rosen, David, MD, and Santesso, Aaron
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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 ...

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Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood 2013, Yale University Press

ISBN-13: 9780300155419

Hardcover