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Book SynopsisEarly modern stereotypes used to be studied as evidence of popular belief, something mired with prejudices and commonly held assumptions. Stereotypes and stereotyping in early modern England goes beyond this view by exploring practices of stereotyping as contested processes. To do so, the volume draws on recent works on social psychology and sociology. It thereby brings together early modern case studies and explores how stereotypes and their mobilisation shaped various negotiations of power, in spheres of life such as politics, religion, economy and knowledge production.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: rethinking early modern stereotyping in the twenty-first century – Koji Yamamoto and Peter Lake
1 Religious and national stereotyping and prejudice in seventeenth-century England – Tim Harris
2 On thinking (historically) with stereotypes, or the puritan origins of anti-puritanism – Peter Lake
3 History plays, Catholic polemics and the staging of political economy in Elizabethan England – Koji Yamamoto
4 Alchemists, puritans and projectors in the plays of Ben Jonson – Peter Lake and Koji Yamamoto
5 Ranter and Quaker stereotyping in the English Revolution – Kate Peters
6 Fighting popery with popery: subverting stereotypes and contesting anti-Catholicism in late seventeenth-century England – Adam Morton
7 ‘We do naturally … hate the French’: Francophobia and Francophilia in Samuel Pepys’s Diary – David Magliocco
8 ‘Sin and sea coal’: smoke as urban life in early modern London – William Cavert
9 Laboratories of subjectification: characters and stereotypes in late Stuart and Georgian theatre – Bridget Orr
10 From Reformation to Enlightenment in post-civil war orientalism – William J. Bulman
Coda: the dialectics of stereotyping – past and present – Sandra Jovchelovitch, Koji Yamamoto and Peter Lake
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