All Outputs (13)

Prisoner of War Camp Journals (2023)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2023). Prisoner of War Camp Journals. In M. Demoor, C. Van Dijck, & B. Van Puymbroeck (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to First World War Periodicals. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

A case study of internment camp newspaper Stobsiade, contextualised in an overview of First World War internment camp periodicals.

Working with Incarcerated Communities: Representing Women in Prison on Screen (2022)
Book Chapter
Gray, P., & Schwan, A. (2022). Working with Incarcerated Communities: Representing Women in Prison on Screen. In A. Schwan, & T. Thomson (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Digital and Public Humanities (105-128). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10

This chapter considers public arts and humanities scholarship and practice in the context of penal institutions, with a focus on women’s prisons and film-making. It argues for a critical-reflective practice, highlighting the opportunities and challen... Read More about Working with Incarcerated Communities: Representing Women in Prison on Screen.

Introduction: Palgrave Handbook of Digital and Public Humanities (2022)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A., & Thomson, T. (2022). Introduction: Palgrave Handbook of Digital and Public Humanities. In A. Schwan, & T. Thomson (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Digital and Public Humanities (1-8). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-1188

This chapter introduces some key concepts and critical debates in digital and public humanities. Emphasis is placed on the multiplicity of “publics” that the collection engages with, including historically underrepresented communities. The chapter cr... Read More about Introduction: Palgrave Handbook of Digital and Public Humanities.

German Military Internees Writing the First World War: Gender, Irony and Humour in the Camp Newspaper Stobsiade (2020)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2020). German Military Internees Writing the First World War: Gender, Irony and Humour in the Camp Newspaper Stobsiade. In C. Westall, & M. Kelly (Eds.), Prison Writing and the Literary World: Imprisonment, Institutionality and Questions of Li

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Carpenter, Mary (2020)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2020). Carpenter, Mary. In L. Scholl (Ed.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02721-6_178-1

Nineteenth-century reformer Mary Carpenter (1807–1877) established an international profile as prolific author and public speaker with a focus on educational and penal reform. After initial reluctance, she also supported the women’s suffrage movement... Read More about Carpenter, Mary.

Entry on Frederick William Robinson (2018)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2018). Entry on Frederick William Robinson. In K. A. Morrison (Ed.), Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction (201-202). Jefferson, North Carolina.: McFarland & Company

This is a biographical author entry in literary companion.

Frederick William Robinson, Charles Dickens, and the Literary Tradition of "Low Life" (2016)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2016). Frederick William Robinson, Charles Dickens, and the Literary Tradition of "Low Life". In J. McDonagh, & J. Bristow (Eds.), Nineteenth-Century Radical Traditions (63-84). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-597

Frederick William Robinson, Charles Dickens, and the Literary Tradition of "Low Life".

Crime and Punishment (2014)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2014). Crime and Punishment. In J. John (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199799558-0087

The study of Victorian crime and punishment is a rich area of research that has attracted the interest not only of literary scholars but also of social historians, legal historians, and criminologists. Related scholarship therefore often situates its... Read More about Crime and Punishment.

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.

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. (2008). 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

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,

When feminism collides with the politics of difference: the pitfalls of progressive filmmaking. (2004)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2004). When feminism collides with the politics of difference: the pitfalls of progressive filmmaking. In CorpoRealities: In(ter)ventions in an Omnipresent Subject (275-289). Koenigstein/Taunus: Helmer

Disciplining female bodies: Foucault and the imprisonment of women. (2002)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2002). Disciplining female bodies: Foucault and the imprisonment of women. In T. Dorfler, & C. Globisch (Eds.), Postmodern Practices. Beitrage zu einer vergehenden epoche. Lit Verlag