- Description
- 1 online resource (ix, 310 pages) : illustrations.
- 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,"--
- Series Statement
- The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
- Uniform Title
- Vagrant figures (Online)
- Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
- Alternative Title
- Vagrant figures (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Police archives before the police -- Atlantic rogues -- The novel and the sexuality of vagrancy -- Lyric population and the prospects of police -- Settler vagrancy -- Surveillance and black life in Equiano's Atlantic -- Toward an abolitionist literary history of the police.
- LCCN
- 2020936905
- OCLC
- ssj0002515075
- Author
Nicolazzo, Sal.
- Title
Vagrant figures [electronic resource] : law, literature, and the origins of the police / Sal Nicolazzo.
- Imprint
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2020]
- Series
The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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