Some classics too

DEFOE, Daniel: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (1722).

DICKENS, Charles: Little Dorrit (1855-57)

DOSTOYEVSKY, Fyodor M.: Zapiski iz mertvogo doma (Memoirs from the House of the Dead, 1862)

GAY, John: The Beggar’s Opera (1728)

GENET, Jean: Le condamné à mort (1942), Haute surveillance (1944), Notre Dame des Fleurs (1944), Miracle de la rose (1946), Journal du voleur (1949)

GRAMSCI, Antonio: Lettere dal carcere (1929-1935)

MARQUIS DE SADE, Donatien Alphonse François: Les 120 journées de Sodome ou l’école du libertinage (1785)

PUIG, Manuel: El beso de la mujer araña (1976)

RINSER, Luise: Gefängnistagebuch (1946)

SHAKESPEARE, William: Richard II (1595)

STENDAL: Le rouge et le noir (1830)

UNTERWEGER, Jack: Fegefeuer oder die Reise ins Zuchthaus. Augsburg 1983.

WILDE, Oscar: De Profundis (1897), The Ballad of Reading Goal (1897)

Prison & literature in history

ALBER, Jan: Narrating the Prison: Role and Representation in Charles Dickens’ Novels, Twentieth-century Fiction, and Film. Youngstown 2007.

BENDER, John: Imaging the Penitentiary. Fiction and the Architecture of Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Chicago, London 1987.

BÜSSING, Sabine: Of Captive Queens and Holy Panthers: Prison Fiction and Male Homoerotic Experience. Frankfurt/M. 1990.

CARNOCHAN, Walter B.: The Literature of Confinement, in: MORRIS, Norval & ROTHMAN, David J. (eds): The Oxford History of the Prison. The Practice of Punishment in Western Society. Oxford, New York 1995, 427-456.

CASTER, Peter: Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in Twentieth-century U.S. Literature and Film. Columbus 2008.

COUPRIE, Alain: Prisons et prisonniers dans le théâtre de Corneille, in: Cahiers de l'Association internationale des études francaises 37 (1985), 137-150.

DAVIS Michael T., McCALMAN Iain & PAROLIN Christina (eds.): Newgate in Revolution: An Anthology of Radical Prison Literature in the Age of Revolution. London, New York 2005.

EL BASRI, Aïcha: L’imaginaire carcéral de Jean Genet. Paris 1999.

FRANKLIN, Howard Bruce: The Victim as Criminal and Artist: Literature from the American Prison. New York, Oxford 1978/1989.

GERSMANN, Gudrun: “De Profundis …”. Selbstzeugnisse des literarischen Untergrundes aus dem Bastille-Archiv, in: SCHULZE, Winfried (ed): Ego-Dokumente. Annäherung an den Menschen in der Geschichte. Berlin 1996, 327-339.

GOMEZ GRILLO, Elio: Apunte sobre la delincuencia y la cárcel en la literatura venezolana. Venezuela 2000.

GRASS, Sean: The Self in the Cell: Narrating the Victorian Prisoner. New York, London 2003.

GREEN, Tara T.: From the Plantation to the Prison. African-American Confinement Literature. Macon, GA 2008.

HASLAM, Jason W. & WRIGTH, Julia M. (ed): Captivating Subjects: Writing Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century. Toronto 2005.

HASLAM, Jason W.: Fitting Sentences: Identity in Nineteenth and Twentieth-century Prison Narratives. Toronto, London 2008.

HERGENHAN, Laurie: Unnatural lives: Studies in Australian Convict Fiction. St. Lucia 1993.

LAMOINE, Georges: Littérature et justice pénale en Angleterre au XVIIIe siècle. Paris 1987.

MILLER, D. Quentin: Prose and Cons. Essays on Prison Literature in the United States. Jefferson, NC 2005

NERENBERG, Ellen Victoria: Prison Terms: Representing Confinement during and after Italian Fascism. Toronto 2001.

OKUN, Peter: Crime and the Nation: Prison Reforms and Popular Fiction in Philadelphia, 1786-1800. New York, London 2002.

PEREZ, Janet & PEREZ, Genaro J.: Hispanic Prison Literature. Lubbock, TX 1995

SEILER, Thomas: Im Leben verschollen: Zur Rekontextualisierung skandinavischer Gefängnis- und Holocaustliteratur. Heidelberg 2006.

SLOTKIN, Richard: Regeneration through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860. Middletown/Conn. 1987.

STRAUSS, Paul: In Hope of Heaven: English Recusant Prison Writings of the Sixteenth Century. New York 1995.

SULLIVAN, Larry E. (ed): Bandits & Bibles: Convict Literature in Nineteenth-Century America. New York 2003.

SUMMERS, Joanna: Late-medieval Prison Writing and the Politics of Autobiography. Oxford 2004.

VARAUT, Jean-Marc: Poètes en prisons: de Charles d’Orléans à Jean Genet. Paris 1989.

WEIGEL, Sigrid: “Und selbst im Kerker frei … !” Schreiben im Gefängnis. Zur Theorie und Gattungsgeschichte der Gefängnisliteratur. Marburg/Lahn 1982.

WHALEN, Lachlan: Contemporary Irish Republican Prison Writing: Writing and Resistence. New York 2007.