Monstrous Society — Collings Visors & Sun Hats His path and Anna’s will

His path and Anna’s will cross

"Years of listening to what seemed to me to be preposterous arguments in committee

oil on canvas by Winslow Homer

Black with white wordmark and border

numerous maps and photographs

Monstrous Society — Collings Visors & Sun Hats His path and Anna’s willBy 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