Losing Face : Shame, Society and the Self in Early Modern England
Publisher,Routledge
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Format, Hardcover
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No. of Pages, 254
This book is a study of shame in English society in the two centuries between c.1550 and c.1750, demonstrating the ubiquity and powerful hold it had on contemporaries over the entire era. Placing these divergent forms in the context of the momentous social and cultural shifts that unfolded over the course of the era, the book challenges perceptions of the waning of shame in the transition from early modern to modern times, arguing instead that whereas some modes of shame diminished or disappeared, others remained vital, were reformulated and vastly enhanced--
Table of Contents
1. Constructions of Shame 2. Puritans and the Experience of Shame 3. Family, Networks and Shame 4. Commercial Enterprise and Exchange 5. Communities as Sites of Shame 6. Crime Narratives and Shame 7. Transformations of Shame
Biography
Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos is Professor (emerita) of History at the Department of History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her publications include Adolescence and Youth in Early Modern England (1994), and The Culture of Giving: Informal Support and Gift-Exchange in Early Modern England (2008).
