Banished: Common Law and the Rhetoric of Social Exclusion in Early New England

(The University of Pennsylvania Press) Using 17th-century New England common law as a guide, Banished explores practices of social exclusion in Puritan New England. By looking at cases of banishment, from religious critic Anne Hutchinson to Native Americans on Deer Island, Goodman argues that exclusionary practices strengthened the bonds between those who remained and explores how law allowed the Puritans to define themselves. Goodman is an associate professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder.