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Book Review

Crime and the Nation: Prison Reform and Popular Fiction in Philadelphia, 1786–1800. By Peter Okun. (New York: Routledge, 2002. xxii, 167 pp. $70.00, ISBN 0-415-93386-2.)
Peter Okun, a professor of English, analyzes "crime and punishment as it was imagined" (p. xv) during the 1790s in the writings of Philadelphia's prison reformers and in popular fiction. His methodology "is indebted to certain post-structuralist and materialist formulations" (p. xviii), especially those of Fredric Jameson. But Okun, who reverentially draws upon Michel Foucault's writings even more than the index suggests, utilizes a great many theoretical works. Although he stresses the importance of historical context, when examining the Philadelphia as well as the general American context Okun relies on a decidedly narrow scholarship base. . . .
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