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Words, Books, Images, and the Long Eighteenth Century: Essays for Allen Reddick
Edited by Antoinina Bevan Zlatar, Mark Ittensohn, Enit Karafili Steiner and Olga Timofeeva
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 16] 2021
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Illustrating Byron’s Prisoner of Chillon

Biopolitics and the art of bearing witness

| University of Neuchâtel
Article outline
  • Bearing witness in “The Prisoner”
  • Illustrating “The Prisoner”
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
Published online: 16 December 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.16.12vin
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