Yale University Press is
publishing a new book on how vagrancy has shaped the role of policing in
colonialism, racial formation and resource distribution
ABOUT THE BOOK
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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sal Nicolazzo is assistant
professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.
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