All Outputs (73)

'Woman’s Wrongs’: gender, free love and the law in Susan Willis Fletcher’s "Twelve Months in an English Prison" (1884) (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2012, June). 'Woman’s Wrongs’: gender, free love and the law in Susan Willis Fletcher’s "Twelve Months in an English Prison" (1884). Paper presented at Taking Liberties: Sex, Pleasure, Coercion (1748-1928), Newcastle University, UK

No abstract available.

Reading about crime and punishment, prison volunteering and employability for literary studies graduates (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2012, May). Reading about crime and punishment, prison volunteering and employability for literary studies graduates. Paper presented at The Higher Education Academy Arts and Humanities Annual Conference, Glasgow, Scotland

No abstract available.

Adultery, gender and the nation: the trial and Imprisonment of Florence Maybrick (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2012, April). Adultery, gender and the nation: the trial and Imprisonment of Florence Maybrick. Paper presented at Bodies of Evidence: Crime, Gender, and Representation, Newcastle University, UK

Introduction - Reading and Writing in Prison (2011)
Journal Article
Schwan, A. (2011). Introduction - Reading and Writing in Prison. Critical Survey, 23(3), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.3167/cs.2011.230301

No abstract available.

Special issue of Critical Survey - Reading and Writing in Prison. Anne Schwan is guest editor.

Crime (2011)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2011). Crime. In S. Ledger, & H. Furneaux (Eds.), Charles Dickens in Context, (301-309). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511975493.039

Reflecting on society's treatment of convicts in 1891, Oscar Wilde declared that ‘one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more br... Read More about Crime.

How to read Foucault's "Discipline and Punish": the birth of the prison (2011)
Book
Schwan, A., & Shapiro, S. (2011). How to read Foucault's "Discipline and Punish": the birth of the prison. Pluto Press

Book Review of "Neo-Victorianism: The Victorians in the Twenty-First Century, 1999-2009" by Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn. (2011)
Journal Article
Schwan, A. (2011). Book Review of "Neo-Victorianism: The Victorians in the Twenty-First Century, 1999-2009" by Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn. Contemporary Women's Writing, 5(2), 161-162. https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpr004

No abstract available.

‘Dreadful Beyond Description’: Mary Carpenter's prison reform writings and female convicts in Britain and India (2010)
Journal Article
Schwan, A. (2010). ‘Dreadful Beyond Description’: Mary Carpenter's prison reform writings and female convicts in Britain and India. European Journal of English Studies, 14(2), 107-120. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2010.481450

Mary Carpenter (1807-77) was one of mid-Victorian England's most prolific social reformers, starting her career with a focus on the reformation of juvenile offenders. This article considers Carpenter's writings on female convicts in Britain and India... Read More about ‘Dreadful Beyond Description’: Mary Carpenter's prison reform writings and female convicts in Britain and India.

Constructing citizenship through suffragette prison diaries (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2010, June). Constructing citizenship through suffragette prison diaries. Paper presented at 7th Biennial International Auto/Biography Association Conference, University of Sussex

No abstract available.

From "Dry Volumes of Facts and Figures" to stories of "Flesh and Blood": the prison naratives of Frederick William Robinson (2009)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2009). From "Dry Volumes of Facts and Figures" to stories of "Flesh and Blood": the prison naratives of Frederick William Robinson. In J. Alber, & F. Lauterbach (Eds.), Stones of Law-Bricks of Shame: narrating imprisonment in the Victorian age (191-212). Toronto University Press

Gender, class and citizenship in suffragette prison memoirs (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2009, October). Gender, class and citizenship in suffragette prison memoirs. Paper presented at Lives in Relation: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Life Writing, University of Lincoln

No abstract available.

Book Review - "The Transforming Draught: Jekyll and Hyde" - Robert Louis Stevenson and the Victorian alcoholism debate. (2008)
Journal Article
Schwan, A. (2008). Book Review - "The Transforming Draught: Jekyll and Hyde" - Robert Louis Stevenson and the Victorian alcoholism debate. Journal of Stevenson Studies, 5,

Empowering Students Through Reading Diaries (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A., & Wasson, S. (2008, December). Empowering Students Through Reading Diaries. Paper presented at English Subject Centre Conference 'Beyond the Essay', Northumbria University

No abstract available.

Entries for Living My Life by Emma Goldman; The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers; The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer; Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach; Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (2007)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2007). Entries for Living My Life by Emma Goldman; The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers; The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer; Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach; Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. In Books: Over a Century of the Greatest Books, Writers, Characters, Passages and Events that Rocked the Literary World. Cassell

Victorian convict lives: selling the prison experience (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2007, August). Victorian convict lives: selling the prison experience. Paper presented at British Association of Victorian Studies Annual Conference, 8th annual conference: Victorian cultural industries & elites, University of Salford

No abstract available.

Book review-"The art of alibi; English law courts and the novel" by Jonathan Grossman. (2006)
Journal Article
Schwan, A. (2006). Book review-"The art of alibi; English law courts and the novel" by Jonathan Grossman. Journal of Victorian Culture, 11, 193-198

Book Review - "Victorian detective fiction and the nature of evidence: the scientific investigations of Poe, Dickens and Doyle" by Lawrence Frank. (2006)
Journal Article
Schwan, A. (2006). Book Review - "Victorian detective fiction and the nature of evidence: the scientific investigations of Poe, Dickens and Doyle" by Lawrence Frank. Journal of Victorian Culture, 11, 193-198. https://doi.org/10.3366/jvc.2006.11.1.180

'Grop[ing] in the Darkness': Frederick William Robinson’s Tales of Female Crime and Incarceration (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2006, November). 'Grop[ing] in the Darkness': Frederick William Robinson’s Tales of Female Crime and Incarceration. Paper presented at 48th Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, USA

No abstract available.

Voices from prison: Nineteenth-Century narratives of female Incarceration (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2006, October). Voices from prison: Nineteenth-Century narratives of female Incarceration. Paper presented at Neglected Narratives and Untold Stories, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

No abstract available.

Mediating the world of the prison: class and gender in Victorian convict autobiography (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schwan, A. (2006, July). Mediating the world of the prison: class and gender in Victorian convict autobiography. Paper presented at 5th Biennial International Auto/Biography Association Conference, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany

No abstract available.