The Routledge Research Companion to Law and Humanities in Nineteenth-Century America

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.

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