John B. Bender
Stanford University
21 Papers
85 Citations
John B. Bender is an academic researcher from Stanford University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Realism & Narrative. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 21 publications.
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Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction and the Architecture of Mind in Eighteenth-Century England
John B. Bender
- 01 Sep 1987
TL;DR: The authors argue that the attitudes expressed in narrative literature and art between 1719 and 1779 helped bring about the change from traditional prisons to penitentiaries, and offer studies of "Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, The Beggar's Opera, Hogarth's "Progresses, Jonathan Wild, and "Amelia" as well as illustrations from prison literature, art, and architecture in support of his thesis.
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Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction and the Architecture of Mind in Eighteenth-Century England
Maximillian E. Novak,John B. Bender +1 more
- 01 Jan 1990
Abstract: This brilliant and insightful contribution to cultural studies investigates the role of literature particularly the novel and visual arts in the development of institutions. Arguing the attitudes expressed in narrative literature and art between 1719 and 1779 helped bring about the change from traditional prisons to penitentiaries, John Bender offers studies of "Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, The Beggar's Opera," Hogarth's "Progresses, Jonathan Wild," and "Amelia" as well as illustrations from prison literature, art, and architecture in support of his thesis."
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The Ends of Rhetoric: History, Theory, Practice
John B. Bender,David E. Wellbery +1 more
- 01 Jan 1990
TL;DR: In this paper, BENDER and WELLBERCOVITCH SACVAN SENNETT RICHARD discuss the importance of gender diversity in the context of women's health.
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The Culture of Diagram
John B. Bender,Michael Marrinan +1 more
- 20 Jan 2010
TL;DR: A history of convergence among diverse streams of data in real-time is outlined, from eighteenth-century print media and the diagrammatic procedures in the pages of Diderot's Encyclopedia to the paintings of Jacques-Louis David and mathematical devices that reveal the unseen worlds of quantum physics.
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