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Vagrant Figures: Law, Literature, and the Origins of the Police

Vagrant Figures: Law, Literature, and the Origins of the Police

Nicolazzo, Sal

Hardcover

Series: The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History

Literary CriticismGeneral LawGeneral Political Science

Publisher Price: $65.00

ISBN10: 0300241313
ISBN13: 9780300241310
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Jan 5 2021
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
How vagrancy, as legal and imaginative category, shaped the role of policing in colonialism, racial formation, and resource distribution

In this innovative book demonstrating the important role of eighteenth-century literary treatments of policing and vagrancy, Nicolazzo offers a prehistory of police legitimacy in a period that predates the establishment of the modern police force. She argues that narrative, textual, and rhetorical practices shaped not only police and legal activity of the period, but also public conceptions of police power. Her extensive research delves into law and literature on both sides of the Atlantic, tracking the centrality of vagrancy in establishing police power as a form of sovereignty crucial to settler colonialism, slavery, and racial capitalism. The first book in several generations to address policing and vagrancy in the eighteenth century, and the first in the field to center race and empire in its account of literary vagrancy, Nicolazzo's work is a significant contribution to the field of eighteenth-century literary and cultural studies.

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