Monstrous Society — Collings Visors & Sun Hats Mid-weight

Mid-weight

Black with white wordmark and border

oil on canvas by Winslow Homer

His path and Anna’s will cross

Midweight long-sleeved T-shirt with BOWDOIN imprint

Monstrous Society — Collings Visors & Sun Hats Mid-weightBy 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