Whilst planning a section of my chapter on pre-revolutionary works on Siberian prison and exile, I’ve been considering the role of images as well as the words, as many of the books I’ve been reading – at least most of those published after around 1880 in the UK and the States, and after around 1900 […]
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Katorga and exile illustrated
Posted by Sarah Young on August 13, 2014
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2014/08/13/katorga-and-exile-illustrated/
No worse than English prisons…
My work on nineteenth-century narratives about Russian imprisonment and exile has not only led me to read the classics that established the genre, notably Dostoevsky’s House of the Dead and Chekhov’s Sakhalin Island, but has also necessitated ploughing through many less celebrated works by both travellers and former prisoners and exiles. (See my previous post […]
Posted by Sarah Young on April 16, 2014
https://sarahjyoung.com/site/2014/04/16/no-worse-than-english-prisons/