Fictions of Consent - Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England

"In Fictions of Consent Urvashi Chakravarty excavates the ideologies of slavery that took root in early modern England in the period that preceded the development of an organized trade in enslaved persons. Despite the persistent fiction that England was innocent of racialized slavery, Chakravarty argues that the ideologies of slavery were seeded in the quotidian spaces of English life and in the everyday contexts of England's service society, from the family to the household, in the theater and, especially, the grammar school classroom, where the legacies of classical slavery and race were inherited and negotiated"--

About the author

Urvashi Chakravarty is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto.

Product details

• Authors: Urvashi Chakravarty
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780812253658
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5365-8
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Raceb4race: Critical Race Stud; RaceB4Race: Critical Race Studies of the Premodern
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies