Stereotypes and stereotyping in Early Modern England puritans, papists and projectors

Early modern stereotypes used to be studied as evidence of popular belief, something mired with prejudices and commonly held assumptions. Stereotypes and stereotyping in early modern England goes beyond this view by exploring practices of stereotyping as contested processes. To do so, the volume dra...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Yamamoto, Koji, editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press 2022.
Colección:Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Rethinking early modern stereotyping in the twenty-first century
  • Religious and national stereotyping and prejudice in seventeenth-century England
  • On thinking (historically) with stereotypes, or the puritan origins of anti-puritanism
  • History plays, Catholic polemics and the staging of political economy in Elizabethan England
  • Alchemists, puritans and projectors in the plays of Ben Jonson
  • Ranter and Quaker stereotyping in the English Revolution
  • Fighting popery with popery: subverting stereotypes and contesting anti-Catholicism in late seventeenth-century England
  • 'We do naturally ... hate the French': francophobia and francophilia in Samuel Pepys's Diary
  • 'Sin and sea coal': smoke as urban life in early modern London
  • Laboratories of subjectification: characters and stereotypes in late Stuart and Georgian theatre
  • From Reformation to Enlightenment in post-Civil War orientalism
  • Coda: The dialectics of stereotyping past and present.