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Discipline and the Lash in Melville's White-Jacket.(Herman Melville)(Critical essay)

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From: Leviathan
Date: 20051001
Author:Bellis, Peter

In his 1975 study, Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault speaks of an early nineteenth-century transition between two different concepts of "penality"--from one regime based on the spectacular display of physical punishment to another founded on incarceration, surveillance, and control. The former is publicly enacted on the body and is epitomized by public torture and execution; the latter is withdrawn from public view and relocated within the disciplinary structures of school, factory, and prison. (1)

In White-Jacket, or The World in a Man-of-War, published in 1850, Herman ...

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