The Routledge Research Companion to
Law and Humanities in Nineteenth-Century America
Nan Goodman and Simon Stern (eds.)
Oxford: Routledge, 2017, 372 pp.
ISBN: 9781472441003
Nineteenth-century America witnessed some of the most
important and fruitful areas of intersection between the law and humanities, as
people began to realize that the law, formerly confined to courts and lawyers,
might also find expression in a variety of ostensibly non-legal areas such as
painting, poetry, fiction, and sculpture. Bringing together leading researchers
from law schools and humanities departments, this Companion touches on
regulatory, statutory, and common law in nineteenth-century America and
encompasses judges, lawyers, legislators, litigants, and the institutions they
inhabited (courts, firms, prisons). It will serve as a reference for specific
information on a variety of law- and humanities-related topics as well as a
guide to understanding how the two disciplines developed in tandem in the long
nineteenth century.
Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Part I: Human
Kinds
Introduction
Nan Goodman and
Simon Stern
1. Women: Politics, Culture, and the Law
Joyce W. Warren
2. «The Very Idea of a Slave is a
Human Being in Bondage»
Jeannine Marie
DeLombard
3. The Corporation and the Transformation
of American Culture
Aaron Ritzenberg
4. Deviance in Nineteenth-Century American
Law and Culture
Tal Kastner
5. Comparative Racialization and American
Indian Identity in Nineteenth-Century America
Cheryl Suzack
6. The Legal Person: Tracing the History of
a Forensic Fiction
Susanna L.
Blumenthal
Part II: A New
Archive
Introduction
Nan Goodman and
Simon Stern
7. Law in Nineteenth-Century American
Periodicals
Michael H.
Hoeflich
8. Spectacular Judgments: Law and Disorder
in the Nineteenth-Century
Visual Imagination
Jon Blandford
9. Legal Language: Expansion,
Consolidation, Resistance
Robert L. Tsai
10. The Impersonation of Justice: Lynching,
Dueling, and
Wildcat Strikes in Nineteenth Century
America
Norman W.
Spaulding
11. The Somers Mutiny and the American Ship
of State
Robert A.
Ferguson
Part III: Managing
the Human
Introduction
Nan Goodman and
Simon Stern
12. The Emergence of a Right to Privacy
Milette Shamir
13. The Science of Identity
Simon A. Cole
14. The American Prison, 1786-1860
John Cyril Barton
15. How Meetings Won the West
Andrea McDowell
16. A Gatekeeping Nation: Asian Invasion
and the Rise of Xenophobic
Immigration Law
Edlie Wong
17. Fictions of Race and Personality:
Nineteenth-Century Law and
Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson
Trinyan Mariano
Part IV:
Affective Relations
Introduction
Nan Goodman and
Simon Stern
18. Civic Capacity and Participatory
Citizenship in the Nineteenth Century
United States
Yvonne Pitts
19. «Vital Tissues of the
Spirit»: Constitutional Emotions in the Antebellum United
States
Doni Gewirtzman
20. Beyond Belief: Religion, Law and
Popular Culture in the «Forgotten Century»
Deborah Whitehead
21. Gothic Stories, Mens Rea, and the
American Criminal Law
Laura I. Appleman
Index
Nan Goodman is Professor of
English at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.
Simon Stern is Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Centre for
Innovation Law & Policy at the University of Toronto, Canada.
