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