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The situation of prisons is a prime example, where references to the ‘Dickensian prison’ figure in contemporary discourse to draw critical attention to the state of prisons and to call for reform. But it would be too simple to assume that today’s references to the Dickensian prison relate directly to the way Dickens narrates the prison. Therefore, this paper presents a detailed digital humanities textual study of prisons in Dickens’s novels to shed light on the vocabulary that the author uses to talk about this institution. The prisons in Dickens’s novels tend to be historic and outdated prisons, rather than the new Victorian-built model prisons. Using the CLiC (Corpus Linguistics in Context) web app, which combines a set of corpora with tools to access and search sets of texts, we set out to accumulate a substantial amount of textual evidence for a description of the carceral characteristics of Dickens’s prisons. These characteristics describe features of the prison building, prison TimeSpace, prison life, and effects of the prison. Our findings present a valuable platform from which to consider the enduring popularity of the Dickensian prison in contemporary penal discourse.</p> <h3>Authors with CRIS profile</h3> <div class="entity-map"> <a class="entity" href="/persons/230801283/"> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 448 512"><path d="M224 256c70.7 0 128-57.3 128-128S294.7 0 224 0S96 57.3 96 128s57.3 128 128 128zm-45.7 48C79.8 304 0 383.8 0 482.3C0 498.7 13.3 512 29.7 512H418.3c16.4 0 29.7-13.3 29.7-29.7C448 383.8 368.2 304 269.7 304H178.3z"/></svg> <span>Agnes Michaela Mahlberg</span> </a> <br> </div> <h3>Involved external institutions</h3> <div class="entity-stack"> <a class="entity" href="/organisations/ext/137325722/"> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 576 512"><!--! 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Defining the Carceral Characteristics of the ‘Dickensian prison’: A Corpus Stylistics Analysis of Dickens’s Novels. <i>Victoriographies</i>, <i>13</i>(1), 15-41. https://doi.org/10.3366/vic.2023.0477</p> <p><strong>MLA:</strong></p> <p>March, Eleanor, et al. "Defining the Carceral Characteristics of the ‘Dickensian prison’: A Corpus Stylistics Analysis of Dickens’s Novels." <i>Victoriographies</i> 13.1 (2023): 15-41.</p> <p><strong>BibTeX:</strong> <a href='https://cris.fau.de/bibtex/publication/320226515.bib'>Download</a></p> </div> </div> <div id="footer"> <div class="content"> <address> <p>Friedrich-Alexander-Universität</p> <p>Erlangen-Nürnberg</p> <p>Schloßplatz 4</p> <p>91054 Erlangen</p> </address> <div> <p>Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg</p> <p>Current Research Information System | CRIS</p> <p><a href="mailto:cris-support@fau.de">Mail: cris-support@fau.de</a></p> </div> <div> <p><a href="https://blogs.fau.de/cris/impressum-datenschutz-und-barrierefreiheit/">Impressum / Datenschutz / Barrierefreiheit</a></p> <p><a href="https://blogs.fau.de/cris/">CRIS-Blog</a></p> <p><a href="https://cris.fau.de/docs/">CRIS-Handbuch</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </body> <script src="/static/js/filter.js"></script> <script src="/static/js/tabs.js"></script> </html>