Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 41) (Volume 0)

Wall, Wendy

ISBN 10: 052103003X / ISBN 13: 9780521030038

Edité par Cambridge University Press, 2006

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• Titre: Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 41) (Volume 0)
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date de parution: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 052103003X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780521030038
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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What role does food and cooking play in how people imagine themselves and their communities? In this book Wendy Wall argues that representations of housework in the early modern period helped to forge crucial conceptions of national identity. Rich with a detailed account of household practices in the period, Staging Domesticity reads plays on the London stage in the light of the first printed cookbooks in England. Working from original historical sources on wetnursing, laundering, sewing, medical care and butchery, Wall shows that domesticity was represented as deeply familiar but also enticingly alien. Wall analyses a wide range of the repertoire, including some now little-known plays, as well as key works in the period by Shakespeare and others. Wall concludes that, rather than dramatizations of only court-based and aristocratic domestic life, literature of the period drew on work from the more common household.

À propos de l?auteur

Wendy Wall is Associate Professor of English Literature at Northwestern University and a scholar of early modern literature and culture. She is the author of The Imprint of Gender: Authorship and Publication in the English Renaissance (Cornell University Press, 1993) and co-editor of the journal Renaissance Drama. Wall has published widely on print technology, voyeurism, women's writing, poetry, housework, and early modern culture.