Vagrant figures : law, literature, and the origins of the police /
"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 rhetor...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven ; London :
Yale University Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Police archives before the police
- Atlantic rogues
- 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.
