Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History #: Vagrant Figures

Law, Literature, and the Origins of the Police

Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History #: Vagrant Figures
Sal Nicolazzo
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Hardback
h235 x 156mm - 320pg
2 Feb 2021 US
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9780300241310
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In this innovative book examining eighteenth-century literary treatments of policing and vagrancy, Nicolazzo reveals the narrative, textual, and rhetorical practices that shaped the purview and scope of policing long before the establishment of the modern police force. Arguing that the legitimacy of the police was built upon the much older legal category of vagrancy, Nicolazzo traces vagrancy through an expansive, transatlantic archive that reveals the everyday theorization of local security and welfare to be crucial to an expanding racial capitalism.

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

"A superb book. Its historical depth and geographical breadth accomplishes far more than most literary scholars, writing on this topic, have done in recent years. "-Betty Joseph, Rice University "A cultural criticism built on the close reading of texts, a model of careful and conscientious reading, and a vital contribution to our understanding of literature' s ideological work. "-Eugenia Zuroski, McMaster University "Nicolazzo finds the roots of modern policing in the earliest days of the American colonies and traces compelling connections between the local minutiae of vagrancy law and the vast, brutal sweep of British imperial expansion. "-Charlotte Sussman, Duke University "Reading lyric poetry, fiction, and memoir together with statutory law and the bureaucratic ephemera of various legal functionaries, Sal Nicolazzo dramatically expands our understanding of policing and of the practices and narratives that accompanied it in the early modern period. "-Simon Stern, University of Toronto
Sal Nicolazzo is assistant professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.
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ISBN-13: 9780300241310
Published: 2 Feb 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Yale University Press
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 235mm
Width: 156mm
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 666g
Pages: 320

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