Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.