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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.

‘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

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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.

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.