Migrants made up a growing class of workers in late sixteenth- and
seventeenth- century England. In fact, by 1650, half of England's
rural population consisted of homeless and itinerant laborers.
"Unsettled" is an ambitious attempt to reconstruct the everyday
lives of these dispossessed people. Patricia Fumerton offers an
expansive portrait of unsettledness in early modern England that
includes the homeless and housed alike. Fumerton begins by building
on recent studies of vagrancy, poverty, and servants, placing all
in the light of a new domestic economy of mobility. She then looks
at representations of the vagrant in a variety of pamphlets and
literature of the period. Since seamen were a particularly large
and prominent class of mobile wage-laborers in the seventeenth
century, Fumerton turns to seamen generally and to an individual
poor seaman as a case study of the unsettled subject: Edward Barlow
(b. 1642) provides a rare opportunity to see how the laboring poor
fashioned themselves, for he authored a journal of over 225,000
words and 147 pages of drawings. Barlow's journal, studied
extensively here for the first time, vividly charts what he himself
termed his "unsettled mind" and the perpetual anxieties of
England's working and wayfaring poor. Ultimately, Fumerton explores
representations of seamen as unsettled in the broadside ballads of
Barlow's time.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
December 2005 |
| First published: |
December 2005 |
| Authors: |
Patricia Fumerton
|
| Dimensions: |
154 x 228 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
288 |
| Edition: |
New edition |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-26956-6 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
General
Books >
History >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-226-26956-6 |
| Barcode: |
9780226269566 |
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