Little Republic Masculinity and Domestic Authority in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Name: Little Republic Masculinity and Domestic Authority in Eighteenth-Century Britain
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ISBN: 9780199686131

ISBN-10: 0199686130

ISBN-13: 9780199686131

Edition: 2014

Authors: Karen Harvey

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The Little Republic examines the relationship between masculinity, the household, and domestic patriarchy. How did men engage with domestic life? What did the household mean to men? How could they lay claim to domestic authority? In reconstructing men's own understandings, this volume foregrounds the concept of the 'house' and the associated discourse of 'oeconomy': the practice of managing the economic and moral resources of the household for themaintenance of good order. Oeconomy shaped men's engagements with the household adn underpinned the patriarchal authority they acquired through the mundane material practices of everyday household management. The house also endured as a central…

Book details

List price: $42.99
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 4/24/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.29" long x 0.52" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English