1 . Perspectives: Introduction: the prison dream -- Pascal's dungeon -- The myth of the Bastille -- 2. Prison and the romantic imagination: Pétrus Borel: prison and the Gothic tradition -- Stendhal: the happy prison -- Victor Hugo: the spaceless prison -- Nerval's privileged enclosures -- Baudelaire: confinement and infinity -- Huysmans: the prison house of decadence -- 3. The ungraspable camp: Servitude and solitary -- Sartre and the drama of ensnarement -- Epilogue: the borderline zone.
