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EBOOK Little Republic:Masculinity and Domestic Authority in Eighteenth-Century Britain
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191612374
EAN: 921EEB09EB
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Stron: 240
Data wydania: 2012
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The relationship between men and the domestic in eighteenth-century Britain has        been obscured by two well-established historiographical narratives. The first charts        changes in domestic patriarchy, founded on political patriarchalism in the early        modern period and transformed during the eighteenth century by new types of family        relationship rooted in contract theory. The second describes the emergence of a new        kind of domestic interior during the long eighteenth century, a 'home'infused with a        new culture of 'domesticity' primarily associated with women and femininity. The        Little Republic shifts the terms of these debates, rescuing the engagement of men        with the house from obscurity, and better equipping historians to understand        masculinity, the domestic environment, anddomestic patriarchy.Karen Harvey explores        how men represented and legitimized their domestic activities. She considers the        relationship between discourses of masculinity and domesticity, and whether there        was a particularly manly attitude to the domestic. In doing so, Harvey suggests that        'home' is too narrow a concept for an understanding of eighteenth-century domestic        experience. Instead, focusing on the 'house' foregrounds a different domestic        culture, one in which men and masculinity were central.Reconstructing men's        experiences of the domestic as shaped by their own and others' beliefs, assumptions        and expectations, Harvey argues for the continuation of a model of domestic        patriarchy and also that effective domestic patriarchs remained important to        late-eighteenth-century political theory. It was adiscourse of 'oeconomy' - the        practice of managing the economic and moral resources of the household for the        maintenance of good order - that shaped men's attitudes towards and experiences in        the house. Oeconomy combined day-to-day and global management of people and        resources; it was a meaningful way of defining masculinity and established the house        a key component of a manly identity that operated across the divide of 'inside' and        'outside' the house. Significantly for histories of the homewhich so often narrate a        process of privatization and feminization, oeconomy brought together the home and        the world, primarily through men's domestic management.

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