1st Edition
Losing Face Shame, Society and the Self in Early Modern England
By Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos
Copyright 2022
262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book is a study of shame in English society in the two centuries between c.1550 and c.1750, demonstrating the ubiquity and powerful hold it had on contemporaries over the entire era. Using insights drawn from the social sciences, the book investigates multiple meanings and manifestations of shame in everyday lives and across private and public domains, exploring the practice and experience... Read more
1. Constructions of Shame 2. Puritans and the Experience of Shame 3. Family, Networks and Shame 4. Commercial Enterprise and Exchange 5. Communities as Sites of Shame 6. Crime Narratives and Shame 7. Transformations of Shame
Biography
Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos is Professor (emerita) of History at the Department of History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her publications include Adolescence and Youth in Early Modern England (1994), and The Culture of Giving: Informal Support and Gift-Exchange in Early Modern England (2008).
