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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.
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Lil Dragon (Hardcover)
Stan Hildebrand; Illustrated by Wendy Wall
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Lil Dragon (Paperback)
Stan Hildebrand; Illustrated by Wendy Wall
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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