Monstrous Society — Collings Belts (06/23/18–10/28/18)

(06/23/18–10/28/18)

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Monstrous Society — Collings Belts (06/23/18–10/28/18)By 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