Staging Domesticity
Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama
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- Author: Wendy Wall, Northwestern University, Illinois
- Date Published: November 2006
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521030038
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Wendy Wall argues that representations of housework in the early modern period helped to forge conceptions of national identity. With a detailed account of household practices, this study interprets plays on the London stage in reference to the first printed cookbooks in England. Working from original historical sources, Wall reveals that domesticity was represented as "familiar" as well as "exotic". She analyzes a wide range of plays including some now little-known as well as key works of the early modern period.
Read more- The first book to examine early cookbooks and take seriously what they say about home, gender and nation
- A useful resource in documenting the unexpected ingredients used in cooking and medical care: e.g. lice, skulls, umbilical cords, live animals, herbs, minerals
- Shows that literature can help to articulate various conceptions of national identity and community
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"Wall's book usefully complicates and deepens the field...[Wall] produces illuminating interpretations of the dramatic texts she scrutinizes and also of the gendered social dynamics of early modern England." Renaissance Quarterly
See more reviews"Wall's book deserves widespread attention." Modern Language Quarterly
"Easily the most engaging, most thoroughly enjoyable study of the year...a learned, beautifully written 'must read' jam-packed...with fascinating detail..Buy this book." Studies in English Literature
"In a beautifully sustained argument, Wall offers powerful, detailed renderings of household practices ... and equally intriguing interpretations of the emergence of the household in drama identifying itself as 'English'.... Essential for libraries serving graduate students and researchers." Choice
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- Date Published: November 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521030038
- length: 308 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.46kg
- contains: 15 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: in the nations' kitchen
1. Familiarity and pleasure in the English household guide, 1500–1700
2. Needles and birches: pedagogy, domesticity, and the advent of English comedy
3. Why does Puck sweep? Shakespearean fairies and the politics of cleaning
4. The erotics of milk and live food, or, ingesting early modern Englishness
5. Tending to bodies and boys: queer physic in Knight of the Burning Pestle
6. Blood in the kitchen: service, taste, and violence in domestic drama
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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