Reviews: The Logic of History: Putting Postmodernism in Perspective, on the Future of History: The Postmodernist Challenge and its Aftermath, Modernism and the Ideology of History: Literature, Politics, and the Past, Postmodernism in History: Fear or Freedom?, Quoting Shakespeare: Form and Culture in Early Modern Drama, Early Modern Civil Discourses, ‘A moving Rhetoricke’: Gender and Silence in Early Modern England, Society and Culture in Early Modern England, the English Radical Imagination: Culture, Religion and Revolution, 1630–1660, An Age of Wonders: Prodigies, Politics and Providence in England, 1657–1727, Luxury in the Eighteenth Century: Debates, Desires, and Delectable Goods, Antiquaries: The Discovery of the Past in Eighteenth-Century Britain, the French Revolution and the London Stage, 1789–1805, Nationalism, Imperialism and Identity in Late Victorian Culture, Modernism, Male Friendship and the First World War, Bloody Good: Chivalry, Sacrifice, and the Great War, Manliness and the Boy's Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855–1940McCullaghC. Behan, The Logic of History: Putting Postmodernism in Perspective , Routledge, 2004, pp. viii + 212, £18.99 pbBreisachE., On the Future of History: The Postmodernist Challenge and its Aftermath , University of Chicago Press, 2003, pp. vii + 236, $16.00 pb.WilliamsL. Blakeney, Modernism and the Ideology of History: Literature, Politics, and the Past , Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 265, £40.SouthgateBeverley, Postmodernism in History: Fear or Freedom? Routledge, 2003, pp. xi + 211, £55, £16.99 pb.BrusterDouglas, Quoting Shakespeare: Form and Culture in Early Modern Drama , University of Nebraska Press, 2001, pp. 288, £35.50.RichardsJennifer (ed.), Early Modern Civil Discourses , Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, pp. 206, $65.00.LuckyjChristina, ‘A moving Rhetoricke‘: Gender and Silence in Early Modern England , Manchester University Press, 2002, pp. viii + 198, £40.CressyDavid, Society and Culture in Early Modern England , Variorum Collected Studies Series, Ashgate, 2003, pp. xii + 344, £57.50.McDowellNicholas, The English Radical Imagination: Culture, Religion and Revolution, 1630–1660 , Clarendon Press, 2003, pp. x + 219, £45.BurnsWilliam E., An Age of Wonders: Prodigies, Politics and Providence in England, 1657–1727 , Manchester University Press, 2002, pp. 218, £45.BergMaxine and EgerElizabeth (eds), Luxury in the Eighteenth Century: Debates, Desires, and Delectable Goods , Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, pp. xii + 259, 41 plates, £55.SweetRosemary, Antiquaries: The Discovery of the Past in Eighteenth-Century Britain , Hambledon & London, 2004, pp. xxi + 473, £25.TaylorGeorge, The French Revolution and the London Stage, 1789–1805 , Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. x + 263, £45.AttridgeSteve, Nationalism, Imperialism and Identity in Late Victorian Culture , Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, pp. 229, £45.ColeSarah, Modernism, Male Friendship and the First World War , Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 297, £40FrantzenAllen J., Bloody Good: Chivalry, Sacrifice, and the Great War , University of Chicago Press, 2004, pp. 335, £24.50.BoydKelly, Manliness and the Boy's Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855–1940 , Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, pp. x + 273, £60.

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-100
Author(s):  
Christopher Parker ◽  
David Watson ◽  
Alan Armstrong ◽  
Ben Lowe ◽  
Carrie Hintz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Modern Drama ◽  
Victorian Culture ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
The Past ◽  
The First World War

CONSUMPTION AND CONSUMERISM IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND

1999 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 549-564 ◽  
Author(s):  
SARA PENNELL
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Past ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches

Consumption studies have arguably transformed the study of early modern cultural history in the past three decades, with the championing of previously neglected sources, application of interdisciplinary approaches, and exploration of the mentalities of acquisition, ownership, and use. But does the accumulation of writing about consuming and consumption in this period amount to much more than the historical equivalent of window-shopping? It is argued here that greater attention to the consumers as much as the consumed, to the motivations for consuming rather than the act of consumption alone, offers a way out of the explanatory cul-de-sac reached by over-indulgence in the early modern ‘world of goods’.

The Rural ‘Middling Sort’ in Early Modern England, circa 1640–1740: Some Economic, Political and Socio-Cultural Characteristics

Rural History ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Kent
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Cultural Characteristics ◽  
Tudor England ◽  
The Past ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
English Society ◽  
The Subject

A middle class ‘did not begin to discover itself (except perhaps in London) until the last three decades of the [eighteenth] century’. So wrote E. P. Thompson in the 1970s in a now-famous analysis which divided English society into patricians and plebeians, and which, along with J. H. Hexter's ‘The Myth of the Middle Class in Tudor England’, largely eliminated ‘middle class’ from the vocabulary of early modern English historians. During the past decade, however, there has been renewed focus on the middle ranks in early modern England, now commonly labelled ‘the middling sort’, and such studies explicitly or implicitly call into question Thompson's polarized portrayal of English society. A number of earlier works analyzed the middling in the countryside, particularly in the period 1540 to 1640; but recent discussions focus largely on townsmen, and most are concerned with a later period, the second half of the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries. Even in a volume such asThe Middling Sort of People: Culture, Society and Politics in England 1550–1800, a collection of essays presenting recent scholarship on the subject, the rural middling sort receive very little attention (a fact acknowledged by one of the editors). This essay will draw upon detailed evidence from several parishes to consider characteristics of the middling in the countryside during the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

‘Conscientious Attention to Publick and Family Worship of God’: Religious Practice in Eighteenth-Century English Households

2014 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 307-317
Author(s):  
W. M. Jacob
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Family Worship ◽  
The Past ◽  
Devotional Life

Households were the basic units of society in England until well into the nineteenth century, providing the focus of much economic activity, as well as education and, as this essay will argue, religious and devotional life. Recent research has revealed the centrality of religious life in the home in early modern England, but the extensive research about eighteenth-century households over the past fifteen years has seldom made reference to the place and practice of religion in the domestic context. This essay, focusing on the corporate religious life of Anglican households rather than on the piety and devotions of individuals, suggests that religion remained at the heart of the home and family lives of Anglican laypeople throughout the period. It was not rediscovered by Evangelicals, nor was it a distinguishing feature of evangelical households, but was a continuing element throughout the period.

Reviews: Reading the Past, Packing and Unpacking Culture: Changing Models of British Studies, Practising New Historicism, Dust, History by Numbers: An Introduction to Quantitative Approaches, Hamlet in Purgatory, Literary Circles and Cultural Communities in Renaissance England, Putting History to the Question: Power, Politics and Society in English Renaissance Drama, et al., Anna of Denmark, Queen of England, the Royal Image: Representations of Charles I, How Milton Works, a Letter to My Love: Love Poems by Women First Published in the, the Anti-Jacobin Novel: British Conservatism and the French Revolution, Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers, Memory and History in George Eliot: Transfiguring the Past, the West-Country as a Literary Invention: Putting Fiction in its Place, ‘India's Prisoner’: A Biography of Edward John Thompson, 1886–1946, Blind Memory: Visual Representations of Slavery in England and America, 1780–1865, B. L. Coombes, Diana: A Cultural History: Gender, Race, Nation and the People's Princess, the American MysterySpargoTamsin (ed.), Reading the Past , Palgrave2000, pp. xii + 200, £14.99 pb.JarrettDavid, KowalewskiTomasz and RiddenGeoff (eds), Packing and Unpacking Culture: Changing Models of British Studies , Copernicus University, Torún, 2001, pp. 270, £4.GallagherCatherine and GreenblattStephen, Practising New Historicism , University of Chicago Press, 2000, pp. ix + 249, £16.00; ChildsPeter, Modernism , Routledge, 2000, pp. xi + 226, $8.99 pb.SteedmanCarolyn, Dust , Manchester University Press, 2001, pp. xi + 195, £9.99.HudsonPat, History by Numbers: An Introduction to Quantitative Approaches , Arnold, 2000, pp. 278, £45, £14.99 pb.; MunslowAlun, The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies , Routledge, 2000, pp. 271, £47.50, £12.99 pb.GreenblattStephen, Hamlet in Purgatory , Princeton University Press, 2001, pp. xii + 322, £19.95.SummersClaude J. and PebworthTed-Larry (eds), Literary Circles and Cultural Communities in Renaissance England , University of Missouri Press, 2000, pp. xii + 243, £33.95.NeillMichael, Putting History to the Question: Power, Politics and Society in English Renaissance Drama , Columbia University Press, 2000, pp. xii + 527, £22.00; TauntonNina, 1590s Drama and Militarism: Portrayals of War in Marlowe, Chapman and Shakespeare's Henry V, Ashgate, 2001, pp. vii + 239, £42.50.MarcusLeah S. (eds), Elizabeth I: Collected Works , University of Chicago Press, 2000, pp. 632, £25.BarrollLeeds, Anna of Denmark, Queen of England , University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001, pp. 220, £28.50.CornsThomas N. (ed.), The Royal Image: Representations of Charles I , Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. vi + 316, £40.FishStanley, How Milton Works , Harvard University Press, 2001, pp. 616, £23.95; LaresJameela, Milton and the Preaching Arts , James Clarke & Co., 2001, pp. 368, £40.00.OvertonBill (ed.), A Letter to my Love: Love Poems by Women First Published in the Barbados Gazette, 1731–37 , Rosemont Publishing, 2001, pp. 155, £27.GrenbyM. O., The Anti-Jacobin Novel: British Conservatism and the French Revolution , Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. xiii + 271, £40.BloomAbigail Burnham (ed.), Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers , Aldwych Press, 2000, pp. x + 466, £71.50.LiHao, Memory and History in George Eliot: Transfiguring the Past , Macmillan, 2000, pp. xiv + 227, £42.50.TreziseSimon, The West-Country as a Literary Invention: Putting Fiction in its Place , University of Exeter Press, 2000, pp. xvi + 256, £42.00, £13.99 pb.LagoMary, ‘India's Prisoner‘: A Biography of Edward John Thompson, 1886–1946 , University of Missouri Press, 2001, pp. xi + 388, £33.95.WoodMarcus, Blind Memory: Visual Representations of Slavery in England and America, 1780–1865 , Manchester University Press, 2000, pp. 341, £49.95, £17.99 pb.JonesBill and WilliamsChris, B. L. Coombes , University of Wales Press, 1999, Writers of Wales, pp. 114, £5.99; JonesBill and WilliamsChris (eds), With Dust Still in His Throat: A B. L. Coombes Anthology , University of Wales Press, 1999, pp. 208, £9.99; MurphyMichael (ed.), The Collected George Garrett , Trent Editions, 1999, pp. xxix + 270, £7.99 pb.DaviesJude, Diana: A Cultural History: Gender, Race, Nation and the People's Princess , Palgrave, 2001, pp. 250, £47.50, £16.99 pb.TannerTony, The American Mystery , Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. xxiv + 242, £35, £13.95 pb.

2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-100
Author(s):  
David Watson ◽  
V. G. Kiernan ◽  
Gary Farnell ◽  
Christopher Parker ◽  
Mark Allen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
New Historicism ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Charles I ◽  
The Past ◽  
English Renaissance Drama ◽  
Image Representations

Reviews: Northern English: A Social and Cultural History, Foxe's ‘Book of Martyrs' and Early Modern Print Culture, Food in Early Modern England: Phases, Fads, Fashions 1500–1760, Domestic Life and Domestic Tragedy in Early Modern England: The Material Life of the Household, Shakespeare's Histories and Counter Histories, the Uses of History in Early Modern England, Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640–1660, the Arts of the Anglican Counter Reformation: Glory, Laud and Honour, Transatlantic Encounters: American Indians in Britain, 1500–1776, the Social Life of Money in the English Past, Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England, Plagiarism and Literary Property in the Romantic Period, Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Panic!: Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction, the Imagination of Class: Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870–1918, Thomas Hardy, British Representations of the Spanish Civil War, Mass Observation and Everyday Life. Culture, History, Theory, Narratives of Memory: British Writing of the 1940s, Local Shakespeare's: Proximations and Power, Angela Carter: A Literary LifeKatieWales, Northern English: A Social and Cultural History , Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. xvii + 257, £50.JohnN. King, Foxe's ‘Book of Martyrs' and Early Modern Print Culture , Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. xviii+ 351, £60.00JoanThirsk, Food in Early Modern England: Phases, Fads, Fashions 1500–1760 , London, Hambledon Continuum, 2007, pp. xx + 396, £30CatherineRichardson, Domestic Life and Domestic Tragedy in Early Modern England: The Material Life of the Household , Manchester University Press, 2006, pp. xii + 235, £50.00DermotCavanagh, StuartHampton-Reeves, and StephenLongstaffe,(eds), Shakespeare's Histories and Counter Histories , Manchester University Press, 2006. pp. ix + 243, £50.PaulinaKewes (ed.), The Uses of History in Early Modern England , Huntington Library, 2006, pp. ix + 449, £26.95MarcusNevitt, Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640–1660 , Ashgate, 2006, pp. xii + 218, £45.GrahamParry, The Arts of the Anglican Counter Reformation: Glory, Laud and Honour , Boydell Press, 2006, pp. xi + 207, £45AldenT. Vaughan, Transatlantic Encounters: American Indians in Britain, 1500–1776 , Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. xxv + 337, £35DeborahValenze, The Social Life of Money in the English Past , Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. xv + 308£43.JanFergus, Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England , Oxford University Press, 2006. pp. xii + 314. £60.00TilarJ. Mazzeo, Plagiarism and Literary Property in the Romantic Period , University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006, pp. xiv + 236, £36.ArthurRiss, Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature , Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. viii + 238, £45.SimonDentith, Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain , Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. viii + 245, £48.00.DavidA. Zimmerman, Panic!: Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction , University of North Carolina Press, 2006, pp. 294, $22.50 pb.DanBivona and HenkleRoger B., The Imagination of Class: Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor , Ohio State University Press, 2006, pp. 256, $39.95PhilipWaller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870–1918 , Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 1181, £85.ClaireTomalin, Thomas Hardy , Penguin Press, 2007, pp. 512, $35BrianShelmerdine, British Representations of the Spanish Civil War , Manchester University Press, 2006, pp. 185, £55NickHubble, Mass Observation and Everyday Life. Culture, History, Theory , Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. xi + 250, £45.VictoriaStewart, Narratives of Memory: British Writing of the 1940s . Palgrave2006, pp. 218, £45.MartinOrkin, Local Shakespeare's: Proximations and Power , Routledge, 2005, x + 220, £18.99.SarahGamble, Angela Carter: A Literary Life , Palgrave2006, pp. viii + 239, £47.

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-105
Author(s):  
Michael Jardine ◽  
Graham Parry ◽  
Ivan Roots ◽  
Robert Shaughnessy ◽  
Mark Bayer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Literary Life

Reviews: History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism, History and its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence., a Companion to Bede, Selling the Tudor Monarchy: Authority and Image in Sixteenth-Century England, Staging the Old Faith: Queen Henrietta Maria and the Theatre of Caroline England, 1625–1642, Unto the Breach: Martial Formations, Historical Trauma, and the Early Modern Stage, the Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England, Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age., Ars Reminiscendi: Mind and Memory in Renaissance Culture, Women Writing History in Early Modern England, Romanticism and Popular Culture in Britain and Ireland, Native Americans and Anglo-American Culture, 1750–1850: The Indian Atlantic, Debating the Slave Trade: Rhetoric of British National Identity, 1759–1815, Posting It, the Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing, the Tragi-Comedy of Victorian Fatherhood, the Transatlantic Indian, 1776–1930, Evelyn Sharp, Rebel Woman, 1869–1955, Gertrude Stein and the Making of an American Celebrity, the Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, the Literature of the Irish in Britain: Autobiography and Memoir, 1725–2001, Emmanuel LevinasJudithM. Bennett, History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism , Manchester University Press, 2007, pp. 214, £25.DominickLacapra, History and its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence. Cornell University Press, 2009, pp ix + 230, $59.95, $19.95.GeorgeHardin Brown, A Companion to Bede , The Boydell Press, Anglo-Saxon Studies 12, 2009, pp. ix + 167, £45; GunnVicky, Bede's Historiae. Genre, Rhetoric and the Construction of Anglo-Saxon Church History , The Boydell Press, 2009, pp. 256, £50.KevinSharpe, Selling the Tudor Monarchy: Authority and Image in Sixteenth-Century England , Yale University Press, 2009, pp. xxix + 588, £30.RebeccaA. Bailey, Staging the Old Faith: Queen Henrietta Maria and the Theatre of Caroline England, 1625–1642 , Manchester University Press, 2009, pp. xv +265, £50.PatriciaA. Cahill, Unto the Breach: Martial Formations, Historical Trauma, and the Early Modern Stage , Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. x + 227, £50.KeithThomas, The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England , Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. xvi + 393, £20.CaroleLevin and WatkinsJohn, Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age. Cornell University Press, 2009, pp. xi + 217, $45.DonaldBeecher and WilliamsGrant (eds), Ars Reminiscendi: Mind and Memory in Renaissance Culture , Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (Toronto), 2009, pp. 440, CDN$37.MeganMatchinske, Women Writing History in Early Modern England , Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. ix + 240, £55.PhilipConnell and LeaskNigel (eds), Romanticism and Popular Culture in Britain and Ireland , Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. xiv + 317, £50.TimFulford and HutchingsKevin (eds), Native Americans and Anglo-American Culture, 1750–1850: The Indian Atlantic , Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. xi + 263, £50.SrividhyaSwaminathan, Debating the Slave Trade: Rhetoric of British National Identity, 1759–1815 , Ashgate, 2009, pp. xiii+245, £50.CatherineJ. Golden, Posting It, The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing , University Press of Florida, 2009, pp xvii + 299, $69.95.ValerieSanders, The Tragi-Comedy of Victorian Fatherhood , Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. xii + 246, £50.KateFlint, The Transatlantic Indian, 1776–1930 , Princeton University Press, 2009, pp. xv + 376, $39.50.AngelaV. John, Evelyn Sharp, Rebel Woman, 1869–1955 Manchester University Press, 2009 pp xv + 281, £15.99 pb.KarenLeick, Gertrude Stein and the Making of an American Celebrity , Routledge, 2009, pp. xiii + 242, £65.PeterBrooker and ThackerAndrew (eds), The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines , Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. xvii + 955, £95.LiamHarte (ed.), The Literature of the Irish in Britain: Autobiography and Memoir, 1725–2001 , Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp. xl + 301, £55.HandSeán, Emmanuel Levinas , Routledge (Routledge Critical Thinkers Series), 2009, pp. xiv + 138, £55.00, £12.99 pb.

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-113
Author(s):  
David Watson ◽  
David Watson ◽  
Barbara Yorke ◽  
Dale Hoak ◽  
Sophie Tomlinson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Historical Trauma ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Oxford University Press
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