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The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England.

By: Hadfield, AndrewContributor(s): Dimmock, Matthew | Shinn, AbigailMaterial type: TextTextSeries: eBooks on DemandPublisher: Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2014Description: 1 online resource (397 p.)ISBN: 9781409436850Subject(s): England -- Social life and customs -- 17th century | Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century | Popular culture -- England -- History -- 17th century | Social classes -- England -- History -- 17th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern EnglandDDC classification: 942.05 LOC classification: DA380 .A785 2014Online resources: Click here to view this ebook.
Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Thinking About Popular Culture In Early Modern England; PART I: Key Issues; 1 Recovering Speech Acts; 2 Youth Culture; 3 Festivals; 4 Popular Reading and Writing; 5 Visual Culture; 6 Myth and Legend; 7 Religious Belief; PART II: Everyday Life; 8 Courtship, Sex and Marriage; 9 Food and Drink; 10 Work; 11 Gendered Labour; 12 Crime; 13 Popular Xenophobia; 14 Games; 15 Cultures of Mending; PART III: The Experience of the World; 16 Politics; 17 Riot and Rebellion; 18 Time; 19 Property; 20 Popular Medicine
21 Superstition and Witchcraft22 Military Culture; 23 London and Urban Popular Culture; Index
Summary: This comprehensive, interdisciplinary research companion is an essential resource for scholars of early modern history and culture. For the first time a detailed consideration of the scope of early modern popular culture in England is collected in one volume, highlighting the interplay of ''low'' and ''high'' modes of cultural production. Issues as disparate as reading cultures, games, food and drink, time, textiles, religious belief and festivals are discussed, allowing the authors to examine how popular culture impacted upon the everyday lives and experiences of individuals and groups.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Thinking About Popular Culture In Early Modern England; PART I: Key Issues; 1 Recovering Speech Acts; 2 Youth Culture; 3 Festivals; 4 Popular Reading and Writing; 5 Visual Culture; 6 Myth and Legend; 7 Religious Belief; PART II: Everyday Life; 8 Courtship, Sex and Marriage; 9 Food and Drink; 10 Work; 11 Gendered Labour; 12 Crime; 13 Popular Xenophobia; 14 Games; 15 Cultures of Mending; PART III: The Experience of the World; 16 Politics; 17 Riot and Rebellion; 18 Time; 19 Property; 20 Popular Medicine

21 Superstition and Witchcraft22 Military Culture; 23 London and Urban Popular Culture; Index

This comprehensive, interdisciplinary research companion is an essential resource for scholars of early modern history and culture. For the first time a detailed consideration of the scope of early modern popular culture in England is collected in one volume, highlighting the interplay of ''low'' and ''high'' modes of cultural production. Issues as disparate as reading cultures, games, food and drink, time, textiles, religious belief and festivals are discussed, allowing the authors to examine how popular culture impacted upon the everyday lives and experiences of individuals and groups.

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