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Record Nr.

UNISA996552350703316

Titolo

Stereotypes and stereotyping in Early Modern England : puritans, papists and projectors / / edited by Koji Yamamoto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

9781526119148

1526119145

9781526119155

9781526119131

1526119137

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 pages)

Collana

Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain

Disciplina

303.385

Soggetti

Stereotypes (Social psychology) - England - History - 17th century

Stereotypes (Social psychology) - England - History - 18th century

Stereotypes (Social psychology)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 draws on recent works on social psychology and sociology. It thereby brings together early modern case studies and explores how stereotypes and their mobilisation shaped various negotiations of power, in spheres of life such as politics, religion, economy and knowledge production.-- Provided by publisher.