‘Dreadful Beyond Description’: Mary Carpenter's prison reform writings and female convicts in Britain and India
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 art...
Philanthropic Experiments: Gendered Discipline and the Politics of Female Prison Reform
Presentation / Conference
Schwan, A. (2003, September)
Philanthropic Experiments: Gendered Discipline and the Politics of Female Prison Reform. Paper presented at 4th Annual Conference of the British Association for Victorian Studies, Aberystwyth University
No abstract available.
Women's Imprisonment and Penal Reform: Historical Continuities and Critical Interventions
Presentation / Conference
Schwan, A. (2005, September)
Women's Imprisonment and Penal Reform: Historical Continuities and Critical Interventions. Paper presented at 6th Annual Conference of the British Association for Victorian Studies, University of Gloucestershire
No abstract available.
The Limitations of a Somatics of Resistance: Sexual Performativity and Gender Dissidence in Dickens's Dombey and Son
Journal Article
Schwan, A. (2005)
The Limitations of a Somatics of Resistance: Sexual Performativity and Gender Dissidence in Dickens's Dombey and Son. Critical Survey, 17(2), 92-106. https://doi.org/10.3167/001115705781004514
This essay considers some of the implications of a critical turn from a concern with a 'political technology of the body' in the Foucauldian sense to one with embodied micropr...
Lustspielabend: A Night at Stobs [Programme Brochure accompanying public performances]
Other
Schwan, A., Davie, I., Frayn, A., Durkin, R., & Manz, S. (2018)
Lustspielabend: A Night at Stobs [Programme Brochure accompanying public performances]
This programme brochure was developed for audiences attending the 'A Night at Stobs' evening of theatre and music in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Hawick in June 2018. It contains in...
Book Review - "The Transforming Draught: Jekyll and Hyde" - Robert Louis Stevenson and the Victorian alcoholism debate.
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,
Carpenter, Mary
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....
A Night at Stobs
Exhibition / Performance
Schwan, A., Davie, I., Frayn, A., Martin, S., & Dempster, K. A Night at Stobs. [Music and Theatre Performance]. 18 June 2018 - 22 June 2018. (Unpublished))
Schwan, A., Davie, I., Frayn, A., Martin, S., & Dempster, K. A Night at Stobs. [Music and Theatre Performance]. 18 June 2018 - 22 June 2018. (Unpublished
An evening of music and comedy, based on material found at Stobs Camp, a First World War internment camp in the Scottish Borders. Performances at Chalmers Church, Edinburgh (...
Crime and Punishment
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 histo...
‘Bless the Gods for my pencils and paper’: Katie Gliddon's prison diary, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the suffragettes at Holloway
Journal Article
Schwan, A. (2013)
‘Bless the Gods for my pencils and paper’: Katie Gliddon's prison diary, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the suffragettes at Holloway. Women's History Review, 22(1), 148-167. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2012.724917
This article discusses the life and imprisonment of the largely unknown middle-class artist and suffrage activist Katie Gliddon and analyzes her extensive prison diary, secret...