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dc.contributor.authorHarvey, Karen
dc.date.accessioned2013-12-31 23:55:55
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-03 09:09:28
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T14:58:37Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T14:58:37Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier453479
dc.identifierOCN: 796803981en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33854
dc.description.abstractThe relationship between men and the domestic in eighteenth-century Britain has, until now, been obscure. The Little Republic rescues the engagement of men with the house from this obscurity, better equipping historians to understand masculinity, the domestic environment and domestic patriarchy. This book reconstructs men’s experiences of the house, examining the authority that accrued to mundane and everyday household practices and employing men’s own concepts to understand what men thought and felt about their domestic lives. This book explores the distinctive relationship between the domestic environment and masculinity, and finds that ‘home’ is too narrow a concept for an understanding of eighteenth-century domestic experience. Focussing instead on the ‘house’, Harvey foregrounds a different domestic culture in which men and masculinity were central. Men acted within the domestic environment as general managers, accountants, consumers and as keepers of the family history in paper and ink. The book explores a model of domestic patriarchy based on a widely-shared discourse of ‘oeconomy’ – the practice of managing the economic and moral resources of the household for the maintenance of good order. ‘Oeconomy’ was a meaningful way of defining masculinity and established the house a key component of a manly identity and in practising ‘oeconomy’, men established their household authority through small acts of power. The book shows how the public identity of men depended upon the roles they performed within doors, straddling the divide of ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ the house.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present dayen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF2 Gender studies: men and boysen_US
dc.subject.otherpatriarchy
dc.subject.othermasculinity
dc.subject.otherhousehold
dc.subject.othercultural history
dc.subject.otheroeconomy
dc.subject.otherbritain
dc.subject.othereighteenth-century
dc.subject.othergender
dc.subject.otherhouse
dc.subject.othermiddling sort
dc.subject.otherEngland
dc.subject.otherFamily (biology)
dc.subject.otherLondon
dc.titleThe Little Republic: Masculinity and Domestic Authority in Eighteenth-Century Britain
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199533848.001.0001
oapen.relation.isPublishedByb9501915-cdee-4f2a-8030-9c0b187854b2
oapen.relation.isFundedBy780772a6-efb4-48c3-b268-5edaad8380c4
oapen.relation.isbn9780199533848
oapen.collectionOAPEN-UK
oapen.pages231
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: England - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England; Family (biology) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_(biology); London - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London; Patriarchy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarchy
oapen.identifier.ocn796803981


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