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The Little Republic - Masculinity and Domestic Authority in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Paperback)
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The Little Republic - Masculinity and Domestic Authority in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Paperback)
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC
BY-NC-ND 3.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford
Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and
selected open access locations. The Little Republic examines the
relationship between masculinity, the household, and domestic
patriarchy. How did men engage with domestic life? What did the
household mean to men? How could they lay claim to domestic
authority? In reconstructing men's own understandings, this volume
foregrounds the concept of the 'house' and the associated discourse
of 'oeconomy': the practice of managing the economic and moral
resources of the household for the maintenance of good order.
Oeconomy shaped men's engagements with the household adn
underpinned the patriarchal authority they acquired through the
mundane material practices of everyday household management. The
house also endured as a central component of masculinity, providing
the grounding for men's self and public identities. Indeed, the
skills and virtues practised by men in their 'little republics'
were tied increasingly closely to a language of public-spirited
political citizenship. The close relationship between men and the
domestic in eighteenth-century Britain has been obscured by
accounts that chart a decline in domestic patriarchy grounded in
political patriarchalism, and the emergence of a new 'home'
charcterized by a feminized culture of 'domesticity'. The Little
Republic shifts the terms of these discussions. The
eighteenth-century house was neither private nor feminized.
Oeconomy brought together the house and the world - and
increasingly so - primarily through men's authoritative engagement
with the household.
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