Vagrant figures : law, literature, and the origins of the police

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Vagrant figures : law, literature, and the origins of the police

Title remainder

law, literature, and the origins of the police

Statement of responsibility

Sal Nicolazzo

Creator

• Nicolazzo, Sal

Subject

• Police in literature
• Police power
• Police -- History
• Vagrancy in literature
• Vagrancy

Language

eng

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."--

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• Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history