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Recipes for Thought - Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen (Paperback): Wendy Wall Recipes for Thought - Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen (Paperback)
Wendy Wall
R855 Discovery Miles 8 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For a significant part of the early modern period, England was the most active site of recipe publication in Europe and the only country in which recipes were explicitly addressed to housewives. Recipes for Thought analyzes, for the first time, the full range of English manuscript and printed recipe collections produced over the course of two centuries. Recipes reveal much more than the history of puddings and pies: they expose the unexpectedly therapeutic, literate, and experimental culture of the English kitchen. Wendy Wall explores ways that recipe writing-like poetry and artisanal culture-wrestled with the physical and metaphysical puzzles at the center of both traditional humanistic and emerging "scientific" cultures. Drawing on the works of Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson, and others to interpret a reputedly "unlearned" form of literature, she demonstrates that people from across the social spectrum concocted poetic exercises of wit, experimented with unusual and sometimes edible forms of literacy, and tested theories of knowledge as they wrote about healing and baking. Recipe exchange, we discover, invited early modern housewives to contemplate the complex components of being a Renaissance "maker" and thus to reflect on lofty concepts such as figuration, natural philosophy, national identity, status, mortality, memory, epistemology, truth-telling, and matter itself. Kitchen work, recipes tell us, engaged vital creative and intellectual labors.

Lil Dragon (Hardcover): Stan Hildebrand Lil Dragon (Hardcover)
Stan Hildebrand; Illustrated by Wendy Wall
R608 R502 Discovery Miles 5 020 Save R106 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Lil Dragon (Paperback): Stan Hildebrand Lil Dragon (Paperback)
Stan Hildebrand; Illustrated by Wendy Wall
R327 R265 Discovery Miles 2 650 Save R62 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Staging Domesticity - Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama (Paperback, New ed): Wendy Wall Staging Domesticity - Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama (Paperback, New ed)
Wendy Wall
R1,168 Discovery Miles 11 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What role does food and cooking play in how people imagine themselves and their communities? In this book Wendy Wall argues that representations of housework in the early modern period helped to forge crucial conceptions of national identity. Rich with a detailed account of household practices in the period, Staging Domesticity reads plays on the London stage in the light of the first printed cookbooks in England. Working from original historical sources on wetnursing, laundering, sewing, medical care and butchery, Wall shows that domesticity was represented as deeply familiar but also enticingly alien. Wall analyses a wide range of the repertoire, including some now little-known plays, as well as key works in the period by Shakespeare and others. Wall concludes that, rather than dramatizations of only court-based and aristocratic domestic life, literature of the period drew on work from the more common household.

Staging Domesticity - Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama (Hardcover): Wendy Wall Staging Domesticity - Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama (Hardcover)
Wendy Wall
R4,146 Discovery Miles 41 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Wendy Wall argues that representations of housework in the early modern period helped to forge conceptions of national identity. With a detailed account of household practices, this study interprets plays on the London stage in reference to the first printed cookbooks in England. Working from original historical sources, Wall reveals that domesticity was represented as "familiar" as well as "exotic". She analyzes a wide range of plays including some now little-known as well as key works of the early modern period.

Recipes for Thought - Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen (Hardcover): Wendy Wall Recipes for Thought - Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen (Hardcover)
Wendy Wall
R2,383 Discovery Miles 23 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For a significant part of the early modern period, England was the most active site of recipe publication in Europe and the only country in which recipes were explicitly addressed to housewives. Recipes for Thought analyzes, for the first time, the full range of English manuscript and printed recipe collections produced over the course of two centuries. Recipes reveal much more than the history of puddings and pies: they expose the unexpectedly therapeutic, literate, and experimental culture of the English kitchen. Wendy Wall explores ways that recipe writing-like poetry and artisanal culture-wrestled with the physical and metaphysical puzzles at the center of both traditional humanistic and emerging "scientific" cultures. Drawing on the works of Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson, and others to interpret a reputedly "unlearned" form of literature, she demonstrates that people from across the social spectrum concocted poetic exercises of wit, experimented with unusual and sometimes edible forms of literacy, and tested theories of knowledge as they wrote about healing and baking. Recipe exchange, we discover, invited early modern housewives to contemplate the complex components of being a Renaissance "maker" and thus to reflect on lofty concepts such as figuration, natural philosophy, national identity, status, mortality, memory, epistemology, truth-telling, and matter itself. Kitchen work, recipes tell us, engaged vital creative and intellectual labors.

Inventing the "American Way" - The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement (Hardcover): Wendy Wall Inventing the "American Way" - The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement (Hardcover)
Wendy Wall
R2,062 Discovery Miles 20 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the wake of World War II, Americans developed an unusually deep and all-encompassing national unity, as postwar affluence and the Cold War combined to naturally produce a remarkable level of agreement about the nation's core values. Or so the story has long been told. Inventing the "American Way" challenges this vision of inevitable consensus. Americans, as Wendy Wall argues in this innovative book, were united, not so much by identical beliefs, as by a shared conviction that a distinctive "American Way" existed and that the affirmation of such common ground was essential to the future of the nation. Moreover, the roots of consensus politics lie not in the Cold War era, but in the turbulent decade that preceded U.S. entry into World War II. The social and economic chaos of the Depression years alarmed a diverse array of groups, as did the rise of two "alien" ideologies: fascism and communism. In this context, Americans of divergent backgrounds and beliefs seized on the notion of a unifying "American Way" and sought to convince their fellow citizens of its merits.
Wall traces the competing efforts of business groups, politicians, leftist intellectuals, interfaith proponents, civil rights activists, and many others over nearly three decades to shape public understandings of the "American Way." Along the way, she explores the politics behind cultural productions ranging from The Adventures of Superman to the Freedom Train that circled the nation in the late 1940s. She highlights the intense debate that erupted over the term "democracy" after World War II, and identifies the origins of phrases such as "free enterprise" and the "Judeo-Christian tradition" that remain central toAmerican political life. By uncovering the culture wars of the mid-twentieth century, this book sheds new light on a period that proved pivotal for American national identity and that remains the unspoken backdrop for debates over multiculturalism, national unity, and public values today.

Inventing the "American Way" - The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement (Paperback): Wendy Wall Inventing the "American Way" - The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement (Paperback)
Wendy Wall
R1,172 Discovery Miles 11 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the wake of World War II, Americans developed an unusually deep and all-encompassing national unity, as postwar affluence and the Cold War combined to naturally produce a remarkable level of agreement about the nation's core values. Or so the story has long been told. Inventing the"American Way" challenges this vision of inevitable consensus. Americans, as Wendy Wall argues in this innovative book, were united, not so much by identical beliefs, as by a shared conviction that a distinctive "American Way" existed and that the affirmation of such common ground was essential to the future of the nation. Moreover, the roots of consensus politics lie not in the Cold War era, but in the turbulent decade that preceded U.S. entry into World War II. The social and economic chaos of the Depression years alarmed a diverse array of groups, as did the rise of two "alien" ideologies: fascism and communism. In this context, Americans of divergent backgrounds and beliefs seized on the notion of a unifying "American Way" and sought to convince their fellow citizens of its merits.
Wall traces the competing efforts of business groups, politicians, leftist intellectuals, interfaith proponents, civil rights activists, and many others over nearly three decades to shape public understandings of the "American Way." Along the way, she explores the politics behind cultural productions ranging from The Adventures of Superman to the Freedom Train that circled the nation in the late 1940s. She highlights the intense debate that erupted over the term "democracy" after World War II, and identifies the origins of phrases such as "free enterprise" and the "Judeo-Christian tradition" that remain central to American political life. By uncovering the culture wars of the mid-twentieth century, this book sheds new light on a period that proved pivotal for American national identity and that remains the unspoken backdrop for debates over multiculturalism, national unity, and public values today.

Study Guide - for Inventing America: A History of the United States, Second Edition (Paperback, 2 Rev Ed): Wendy Wall, Kenneth... Study Guide - for Inventing America: A History of the United States, Second Edition (Paperback, 2 Rev Ed)
Wendy Wall, Kenneth J Winkle
R669 Discovery Miles 6 690 Out of stock

This Study Guide to "Inventing America" contains chapter objectives and outlines, short-answer and essay questions, and chronologies that support students as they work through the text.

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