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Vagrant Figures : Law, Literature, and the Origins of the Police /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Police Archives Before the Police
- Chapter One. Atlantic Rogues
- Chapter Two. The Novel and the Sexuality of Vagrancy
- Chapter Three. Lyric Population and the Prospects of Police
- Chapter Four. Settler Vagrancy
- Chapter Five. Surveillance and Black Life in Equiano's Atlantic
- Coda. Toward an Abolitionist Literary History of the Police
- Notes
- Index