Open AccessExamination, Surveillance and Confession in Victorian and Late 20th Century Texts
Author(s) -
Diana Hodge
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
papers (victoria park)/papers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1837-4530
pISSN - 1034-9243
DOI - 10.21153/pecl2005vol15no1art1259
Subject(s) - confession (law) , subject (documents) , period (music) , discipline , focus (optics) , history , literature , psychology , sociology , art , aesthetics , social science , computer science , library science , physics , archaeology , optics
Despite the overt differences in themes and foci between the Victorian period and the 1990s, fictional children from both eras are still represented as subject to, and constructed by, disciplinary forces. My focus in this essay is on the extent to which tropes of examination, surveillance and confession appear in texts from both eras as elements of a regime intended to form adolescent subjects.