research overview
- Professor Goodman's current research concerns the legacy of the false Jewish messiah, Shabbtai Sevi.
- Contact Info
Goodman, Nan
Positions
- Professor, English
Research Areas
Research
keywords
- Early American literature and literary history, Anglo-American law, Rhetoric, Transatlantic studies, Early Jewish and Ottoman era literature and history; Jewish Studies
Publications
selected publications
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book
- The Puritan Cosmopolis The Law of Nations and the Early American Imagination 2018
- THE ROUTLEDGE RESEARCH COMPANION TO LAW AND HUMANITIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA INTRODUCTION. Ed. Goodman, Nan . 2017
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The Routledge Research Companion to Law and Humanities in Nineteenth-Century America
2017
- Banished : Common Law and the Rhetoric of Social Exclusion in Early New England 2012
- Turn Around Religion in America: Literature, Culture, and the Work of Sacvan Bercovitch. Ed. Goodman, Nan . 2011
- Shifting the Blame 1998
- Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century America 1998
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chapter
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The Introduction.
English Language Notes.
145-147.
2025
- Early New England Law 2025
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The Introduction.
English Language Notes.
131-132.
2024
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The Introduction.
English Language Notes.
136-137.
2024
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Law and Literature
2018
- THE ROUTLEDGE RESEARCH COMPANION TO LAW AND HUMANITIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA INTRODUCTION. 209-209. 2017
- THE ROUTLEDGE RESEARCH COMPANION TO LAW AND HUMANITIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA INTRODUCTION. 3-3. 2017
- THE ROUTLEDGE RESEARCH COMPANION TO LAW AND HUMANITIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA INTRODUCTION. 117-118. 2017
- THE ROUTLEDGE RESEARCH COMPANION TO LAW AND HUMANITIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA PREFACE. XIII-XXII. 2017
- “Sabbatai Sevi and the Ottoman Jews in Increase Mather’s The Mystery of Israel’s Salvation". 38-53. 2017
- Mather's Turkey: International Law and the Utopian Imagination in Seventeenth-Century America 2014
- 'For Their and Our Security': Jurisdictional Identity and the Performance of the 'Poor Indian' on Deer Island 2012
- Robert Keayne's Nails, or A Mercantilist's Version of Christian Charity. 223-235. 2011
- Roger Williams and the Law and Literature of Colonial New England. 385-393. 2011
- The Deer Island Indians and Common Law Performance. 53-79. 2011
- The Early American Text: Law or Literature? 2011
- Law and Popular Culture, 1790-1920. 387-416. 2008
- LAW IN POPULAR CULTURE, 1790-1920: THE PEOPLE AND THE LAW. 387-+. 2008
- "Nobody to Blame": Steamboat Accidents and Responsibility in Twain. 65-97. 1998
- A Clear Showing: The Problem of Fault in James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers. 15-34. 1998
- Negligence before the Mast: Ship Collisions and the Nautical Literature of the Mid-Nineteenth Century. 35-64. 1998
- Stop, Look, and Listen: The Signs and Signals of the Railroad Accident. 133-158. 1998
- The Law of the Good Samaritan: Cross-Racial Rescue in Stephen Crane and Charles Chesnutt. 98-132. 1998
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Foreword.
Advances in Space Research.
3-3.
1992
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The Introduction.
English Language Notes.
145-147.
2025
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journal article
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The Principle of Neutrality and the Evidentiary Patterns of Conspiratorial Thought in the Early United States.
Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture.
239-262.
2025
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Introduction Iterations of Friendship and Community.
English Language Notes.
1-16.
2023
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A History of American Puritan Literature.
American Literary History.
1517-1520.
2022
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The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton.
American Nineteenth Century History.
329-330.
2021
- Slavery and the Archive [Special Section]. English Language Notes. 218-231. 2021
- The Jewish Apostate and the American Expatriate Leave-Taking in the Early American Republic. Journal of the Early Republic. 69-86. 2021
- "Jewish Apostasy and American Citizenship Revisited" 2021
- From the Northern Parts of Virginia to "Cape-Cod" A Mayflower Thesaurus. Early American Literature. 105-129. 2021
- Introduction to "Race and Police Violence". English Language Notes. 136-136. 2021
- Introduction to "Slavery and the Archive". English Language Notes. 218-218. 2021
- Introduction for "Of Note". English Language Notes. 180-181. 2020
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Critical and Comparative Mysticisms Introduction.
English Language Notes.
1-6.
2018
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The Puritan Cosmopolis: A Covenantal View.
American Literary History.
1-25.
2015
- I Hear No Things Laid to My Charge: Aurality in Anne Hutchinson's Trial Transcript. Critical Analysis of Law. 436-445. 2015
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The Illocutions of Exile.
Law, Culture and the Humanities.
421-431.
2013
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Errands into the Metropolis: New England Dissidents in Revolutionary London..
Modern philology.
E252-E256.
2013
- INTRODUCTION: MAKING SPACE FOR JURIS-DICTIONS. English Language Notes. 1-6. 2010
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Introduction: Making Space for Juris-Dictions.
English Language Notes.
1-6.
2010
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"Money Answers All Things": Rethinking Economic and Cultural Exchange in the Captivity Narrative of Mary Rowlandson.
American Literary History.
1-25.
2010
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Banishment, Jurisdiction, and Identity in Seventeenth-Century New England The Case of Roger Williams.
Early American Studies.
109-139.
2009
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American Indian Languages and the Law of Property in Colonial America.
Law, Culture and the Humanities.
77-99.
2009
- "Border Lives: A Reading of Sacvan Bercovitch and Roger Williams". 25-27. 2008
- The law of the literary archive: The case of the early American period. English Language Notes. 33-39. 2007
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Mercantilism and cultural difference in Cabeza!de Vaca's 'Relacion'.
Early American Literature.
229-250.
2005
- Habeas corpus: Rethinking the great writ of liberty.. Historian. 413-414. 2004
- American law in the 20(th) century.. Historian. 140-141. 2004
- Law in the western United States. Historian. 726-727. 2002
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Troubling confessions: Speaking guilt in law and literature.
Modern philology.
173-176.
2001
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Contract realism (Law and literature).
American Literary History.
513-524.
1999
- The science of sacrifice: American literature and modern social theory. American Literature. 605-606. 1999
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Contract Realism.
American Literary History.
513-524.
1999
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A Clear Showing: The Problem of Fault in James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers.
Arizona Quarterly.
1-22.
1993
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The Principle of Neutrality and the Evidentiary Patterns of Conspiratorial Thought in the Early United States.
Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture.
239-262.
2025
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Background
education and training
- Ph.D., Harvard University 1992
- J.D., Stanford University 1985
- M.A., University of California-Berkeley 1981
- B.A., Princeton University 1979
awards and honors
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