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How and why do stereotypes continue affect public life and shape individual experience? This book tackles this question through case studies drawn from early modern England, a society shaken by divisive identity politics and increasingly commercial media. The book ends by exploring implications these case studies for the twenty-first century.
List of contents
1. Peter Lake and Koji Yamamoto, 'Introduction: Stereotyping, Legitimacy, and the Negotiation of Power in post-Reformation England'
2. Tim Harris, 'Religious and National Stereotyping in Seventeenth-Century England'
3. Brodie Waddell, 'The Political Economy of Xenophobia in the Evil May Day Riots of 1517 and Beyond'
4. Peter Lake, 'On Thinking (Historically) with Stereotypes, or the Puritan Origins of Anti-Puritanism'
5. Koji Yamamoto, 'Political Economy and the Rise of the Projector Stereotype in Ben Jonson's London'
6. Kate Peters, 'Quaker and the Ranter stereotype in the English Revolution'
7. Rob Iliffe, 'Making Enemies: Productive Stereotyping in Early Modern English Natural Philosophy'
8. William Cavert, 'Sin and Sea Coal: Smoke as Urban Life in Early Modern London'
9. David Magliocco, 'Samuel Pepys and the Politics of Stereotyping'
10. Adam Morton, 'Fighting Popery with Popery: Subverting Stereotypes and contesting anti-Catholicism in Late Seventeenth-Century England'
11. William J. Bulman, 'From Reformation to Enlightenment in Post-Civil War Orientalism'
12. Martin Bauer, 'Afterword: Reflections on Stereotyping in the Early Modern Past'
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Koji Yamamoto is an Associate Professor of Business History at the University of Tokyo
Summary
How and why do stereotypes continue affect public life and shape individual experience? This book tackles this question through case studies drawn from early modern England, a society shaken by divisive identity politics and increasingly commercial media. The book ends by exploring implications these case studies for the twenty-first century. -- .
