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Jodi Schorb , Reading Prisoners: Literature, Literacy, and the Transformation of American Punishment, 1700–1845 (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2014, $39.95). Pp. 256. isbn 978 0 8135 6267 4.

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Jodi Schorb , Reading Prisoners: Literature, Literacy, and the Transformation of American Punishment, 1700–1845 (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2014, $39.95). Pp. 256. isbn 978 0 8135 6267 4.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2018

CHRISTOPHER HAGER
CHRISTOPHER HAGER*
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Trinity College (CT)
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Journal of American Studies , Volume 52 , Issue 1 , February 2018 , E3
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References

1 Smith, Caleb, The Prison in the American Imagination (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009)Google Scholar; DeLombard, Jeannine Marie, In the Shadow of the Gallows: Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Weyler, Karen A., Empowering Words: Outsiders and Authorship in Early America (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013)Google Scholar.

3 Smith's memoir, The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict, was published by Random House in January 2016.