Introduction: Making Space for Juris-Dictions Free

Nan Goodman is associate professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder and will be Visiting Professor of Law and Humanities at Georgetown Law School in the spring of 2011. She is the author of Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory Of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century America (Princeton, 1998; Routledge, 2000) and of numerous essays on early American literature, nineteenth-century American literature, and law and the humanities. She is co-editor (with Michael Kramer) of The Turnaround Religion in American Literature (Ashgate, forthcoming) and is finishing a book length manuscript on banishment and the language of social exclusion in seventeenth-century New England.