In an analysis of some historical antecedents for the art form of enclosure and claustrophobia known as compressionism, LAURENCE KITCHIN examines writers as .disparate as Galsworthy. R. C. Sherriff , and Dostoevsky. He concludes that if the authorities at the London School of Economics had been aware of compressionism they ' might have hesitated a good deal longer before installing iron gates'