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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yamamoto, Koji, editor.

Series:

Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain.

Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Stereotypes (Social psychology).

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

Great Britain--History--Stuarts, 1603-1714.

Great Britain.

England.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Puritans, papists and projectors

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781526119155

OCLC:

1355044968