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Denys Van Renen - The Other Exchange: Women, Servants, and the Urban Underclass in Early Modern English Literature - 9780803280991 - V9780803280991
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The Other Exchange: Women, Servants, and the Urban Underclass in Early Modern English Literature

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Description for The Other Exchange: Women, Servants, and the Urban Underclass in Early Modern English Literature Hardback. "The Other Exchange investigates the ways in which English literature represents women, masterless men, and foreigners in the economic and sociocultural foundation of the development of middle-class consciousness in early modern England"-- Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 282 pages, 1 index. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBD; DSRC; HBJD1; HBLL; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 567.

Prompted by commercial and imperial expansion such as the creation of the Bank of England in 1694 and the publication and circulation of Ben Jonson’s The Staple of News in 1626, rapidly changing cultural, economic, and political realities in early modern England generated a paradigmatic shift in class awareness. Denys Van Renen’s The Other Exchange demonstrates how middle-class consciousness not only emerged in opposition to the lived and perceived abuses of the aristocratic elite but also was fostered by the economic and sociocultural influence of women and lower-class urban communities.

Van Renen contends that, fascinated by the intellectual and cultural vibrancy of the urban underclass, many ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
Series
Early Modern Cultural Studies
Number of Pages
282
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803280991
SKU
V9780803280991
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Ref
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About Denys Van Renen
Denys Van Renen is an assistant professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.      

Reviews for The Other Exchange: Women, Servants, and the Urban Underclass in Early Modern English Literature
"Van Renen’s study is a welcome addition to the existing studies of early modern culture and society and will open new doors into studying the marginal, the silenced and the invisible in culture and in literature."—Iman Sheeha, Review of English Studies "A thoughtful, useful book that outlines the rise of middle class ideologies, as they pertain to certain texts (drama ... Read more

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