Monstrous Society — Collings Belts Katherine Baker

Katherine Baker

Black ¼-zip fleece pullover with side pockets and embroidered B and BOWDOIN on left chest

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Monstrous Society — Collings Belts Katherine BakerBy David Collings Professor of English Monstrous Society problematizes competing representations of reciprocity in England in the decades around 1800. It argues that in the eighteenth century moral economy, power is divided between official authority and the counter power of plebians. This tacit, mutual understanding comes under attack when influential political thinkers, such as Edmund Burke, Jeremy Bentham, and T. R. Malthus, attempt to discipline