Bibliograph

Vagrant figures, law, literature, and the origins of the police, Sal Nicolazzo

Type

Label

Vagrant figures, law, literature, and the origins of the police, Sal Nicolazzo

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Vagrant figures

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1146565976

Responsibility statement

Sal Nicolazzo

Series statement

The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history

Sub title

law, literature, and the origins of the police

Summary

"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."--, Provided by publisher

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