Vagrant figures : law, literature, and the origins of the police / Sal Nicolazzo.
Vagrant figures : law, literature, and the origins of the police / Sal Nicolazzo.
Vagrant figures : law, literature, and the origins of the police / Sal Nicolazzo.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
Call Numbers
G 2020/4635
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Language
English
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Physical content
ix, 310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Publication information
Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
[2020]
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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 activit...
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Vagrant figures : law, literature, and the origins of the police / Sal Nicolazzo.
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The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2020
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G 2020/4635
Record Identifier
74VKaK7Ebd2b
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaK7Ebd2b
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ISBN
0300241313
9780300241310
DDC
820.9355609033
MMS ID
991024362615802626
