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The Little Republic - Masculinity and Domestic Authority in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover)
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The Little Republic - Masculinity and Domestic Authority in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover)
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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 relationship between men and
the domestic in eighteenth-century Britain has been obscured by two
well-established historiographical narratives. The first charts
changes in domestic patriarchy, founded on political patriarchalism
in the early modern period and transformed during the eighteenth
century by new types of family relationship rooted in contract
theory. The second describes the emergence of a new kind of
domestic interior during the long eighteenth century, a 'home'
infused with a new culture of 'domesticity' primarily associated
with women and femininity. The Little Republic shifts the terms of
these debates, rescuing the engagement of men with the house from
obscurity, and better equipping historians to understand
masculinity, the domestic environment, and domestic patriarchy.
Karen Harvey explores how men represented and legitimized their
domestic activities. She considers the relationship between
discourses of masculinity and domesticity, and whether there was a
particularly manly attitude to the domestic. In doing so, Harvey
suggests that 'home' is too narrow a concept for an understanding
of eighteenth-century domestic experience. Instead, focusing on the
'house' foregrounds a different domestic culture, one in which men
and masculinity were central. Reconstructing men's experiences of
the domestic as shaped by their own and others' beliefs,
assumptions and expectations, Harvey argues for the continuation of
a model of domestic patriarchy and also that effective domestic
patriarchs remained important to late-eighteenth-century political
theory. It was a discourse of 'oeconomy' - the practice of managing
the economic and moral resources of the household for the
maintenance of good order - that shaped men's attitudes towards and
experiences in the house. Oeconomy combined day-to-day and global
management of people and resources; it was a meaningful way of
defining masculinity and established the house a key component of a
manly identity that operated across the divide of 'inside' and
'outside' the house. Significantly for histories of the home which
so often narrate a process of privatization and feminization,
oeconomy brought together the home and the world, primarily through
men's domestic management.
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