All Roads Lead to Rome?: Decadence, Paganism, Catholicism and the Later Life of Oscar Wilde by Shushma Malik

“…In his travels through France and Italy between 1897 and 1900, Wilde labels the behaviour that led to his imprisonment as belonging to his decadent ‘pagan days’ and ‘Neronian hours’. …”
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“Millions of false eyes / Are stuck upon thee.” The scope of surveillance in Measure for Measure by Sébastien Lefait

“…To this effect, I first relate the surveillance practices of Shakespeare’s time to some of the play’s prevalent thematic pairs: imprisonment and punishment, authority and the prerogatives of the ruler, divine rule and secular law. …”
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Postyczniowa rzeczywistość małych miast. Studium na przykładzie Jędrzejowa, Małogoszcza i Wodzisławia by Krzysztof Ślusarek

“…The urban population has been affected by a wave of Russian repressions, including arrests and imprisonment. Part of the costs of suppressing the uprising was passed onto the townspeople (procuring food for the soldiers housed in the houses and financing the military police). …”
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De Paris à Padoue, le grand tour d’un universitaire proscrit par Louis XIV : Charles Patin, médecin, numismate (1633-1693) by Patrick Ferté

“…Famous Guy Patin’s son, Charles Patin is a physician and precursor numismatist, whose academic career at Paris was early crushed by Louis XIV, because of free-thinking and forbidden books traffic. Escaped before imprisonment (1667), he saw his destiny started up again at the end of a Grand Tour throw the Republic of Letters, about which he kept a precious diary. …”
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Qual será a verdade do jeitinho brasileiro? Perspectivas sobre a Comissão Nacional da Verdade do Brasil by Rodrigo Stumpf González, Rodrigo Lentz

“…The last three elected presidents can be considered victims of the old regime and they suffered persecutions of different natures, such as exile, imprisonment and torture. In 2012, a National Truth Commission has been implemented with the aim of establishing the memory and the truth about human rights violations committed by State agents over the past 66 years. …”
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Vivre sous la menace du bâton de maréchal : expériences carcérales et enfermements pour affaires d’honneur en France au xviiie siècle by Romain Benoit-Lévy

“…Its archives give an account of the great diversity of constraints by body available to it and therefore of the experiences of both its defendants and its agents. Imprisonment obliges defendants and then convicts to create new social relationships: with the prisoners, from whom they are all the more distant because they are privileged, and with the prison staff, who are sometimes allies and sometimes enemies. …”
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Children in institutional re-socialisation and education – on the edge of contemporary trends by Justyna Kusztal, Sławomir Przybyliński

“…Although a prison sentence passed on minors is an exception to the rule of adjudicating educational and reformatory measures, according to international regulations, the category of juvenile imprisonment is broader than serving a sentence in prison. …”
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L’univers des anciens prisonniers politiques en Syrie by Yassin al-Haj Saleh

“…This article proposes to address that gap by analyzing the factors that weigh on post-prison life, including: the conditions for and the duration of imprisonment, the social and emotional environment encountered upon release, the re-establishment of social networks, the employability of ex-prisoners and available means of subsistence – so many elements necessary for successful reintegration. …”
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Les images d’enfermement dans John Marchmont’s Legacy de Mary Elizabeth Braddon by Marion Charret-Del Bove

“…I am principally interested here in presenting the frequently used images of imprisonment, physical as well as social. Indeed this text allows Miss Braddon to throw light on the position of middle-class Victorian women in a patriarchal and particularly oppressive world. …”
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Living out nonconformity: Restoration ministers and their diaries by Colin HARRIS

“…The act stipulated the deprivation of those who refused and three months imprisonment for those who continued to preach. Unable to comply, some changed profession and others took the risk of gathering separate churches. …”
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Cartographie du vide : les "non-lieux" de l’espace américain dans The Informers de Bret Easton Ellis by Nathalie Vincent-Arnaud

“…Published in 1994, The Informers is a collection of thirteen short stories which aim to explore the various facets of a certain Los Angeles social microcosm in the nineteen-eighties.The first-person narration, based on a deliberately minimalist paratactic structure which involves recurrent snatches of dialogue, moves through an endless succession of toponyms (Palm Springs, Melrose etc.) and cultural clichés (trendy places, music or clothing) which all seem to trap people and places within an imprisoning landscape—most aptly metaphorized by the Sunset Boulevard.Both huge and confined to the specific landmarks or "non-places" of an interlope society, this landscape provides an ambivalent area in which people are cast adrift, wandering like ghosts in some kind of existential nowhere described by Michel de Certeau as "un théâtre de passants".…”
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Sweden Against Apartheid: A Historical Overview by Anna-Mart van Wyk

“…Such was the relationship between the African National Congress (ANC) and Sweden, that the latter became the first country outside of Africa to be visited by Nelson Mandela in 1990, after his release from decades of imprisonment. The aim of this contribution is therefore to provide a brief synopsis of the rich history of Sweden’s solidarity with the South African liberation struggle and the role played by the Swedish youth, the Swedish antiapartheid movement, civil society, trade unions, and Olof Palme, former Swedish prime minister, who was one of the most committed allies of the liberation movements. …”
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When “Things Fall Apart”: Thinking Through Absurdity with Arendt and Aseyev by Cana Beverage

“…In this essay, I argue that Aseyev’s reflections on Russian occupation, imprisonment, and torture demonstrate both the special value of Arendt’s “thinking” for those enduring war and violence and reveal a pre-moral-political capacity of “thinking” latent but never explicit in Arendt’s work: the power to cope with the absurd qua absurd.…”
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The tragic route of Baron Tiesenhausen by S. A. Papkov

“…A separate episode in the life of the former Vice-Governor was his arrest, transportation to Siberia and imprisonment in a detention center. This arrest nearly resulted in the death penalty by decision of the Irkutsk provincial police. …”
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Être expulsé ou interné à Djelfa aux siècles derniers (1893 ; 1942) by Danièle Iancu-Agou

“…Professor Simon Schwarzfuchs introduced me, a long time ago, to a testimony, translated by himself from yiddish, of Benjamin Lubelski, ancient prisoner in the camp of Djelfa (1942); another friend, Hugues-Jean of Dianoux, archivist-paleographer and retired diplomat, told me about the sad episode that occurred at the end of the XIXth century (1893), the imprisonment of a Khmer in Djelfa, the son of a Cambodian monarch ! …”
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Interdiction des emblèmes berbères et occupation des espaces symboliques : amazighité versus algérianité ? by Mohand Tilmatine

“…The announced ban on this emblem, promptly followed by the imprisonment of some 30 protesters, opened a gap in the apparent homogeneity that seemed to unify the new “smile revolution”, but also (re)opened a debate on symbols and identity references of a future Algerian republic. …”
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Religious Symbolism and Political Resistance: Navalny’s Martyr Narrative in the Russian Opposition by Nadezhda Beliakova, Zhanna Timofeeva

“…The death of Russian dissident Alexey Navalny in a far-northern colony after three years of imprisonment was declared a martyrdom by the Russian opposition, reflecting the sentiments of a part of Russian society. …”
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Pirates and Gallows at Execution Dock : Nautical Justice in Early Modern England by Samantha Frénée

“…A pirate’s career could end in a number of ways: imprisonment, fines, torture, execution by hanging, a negotiated release, a royal pardon, escape, exile or respectable retirement. …”
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Un établissement pénitentiaire singulier dans «l’archipel punitif» de l’armée française en Algérie : L’établissement des fers de Douera puis de Bône (1855-1858) by Nadia Biskri

“…Unique among the punitive structures of the French army in Algeria, the establishment of chain imprisonment in Douera / Bône, testifies to the permeability of the civil and military prison systems in a context of sharp conflict of competences between military and civil authorities. …”
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Fear and Disillusionment: The EcoGothic in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath by Colin BANCROFT

“…The EcoGothic utilises the tropes of the Gothic genre such as: monstrosity, imprisonment, fear, the Other, the Uncanny, repression, oppression and the Sublime to illuminate issues surrounding the self, relationships, landscapes and the environment. …”
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