Introduction Solitude, Surveillance, and the Art of the Novel; Chapter 1 Narrating the Victorian Prisoner; Chapter 2 Prisoners by Boz: Pickwick Papers and American Notes; Chapter 3 Charles Reade, the Facts, and Deliberate Fictions; Chapter 4 “How Not to Do It”: Dickens, the Prison, and the Failure of Omniscience; Chapter 5 The “Marks System”: Australia and Narrative Wounding; Chapter 6 The Self in the Cell: Villette, Armadale, and Victorian Self-Narration; conclusion Narrative Power and Private Truth: Freud, Foucault, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood;