Losing Face

This book is a study of shame in English society in the two centuries between c.1550 and c.1750, demonstrating the ubiquity and powerful hold it had on contemporaries over the entire era.

Autorentext

Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos is Professor (emerita) of History at the Department of History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her publications include Adolescence and Youth in Early Modern England (1994), and The Culture of Giving: Informal Support and Gift-Exchange in Early Modern England (2008).

Inhalt

1. Constructions of Shame 2. Puritans and the Experience of Shame 3. Family, Networks and Shame 4. Commercial Enterprise and Exchange 5. Communities as Sites of Shame 6. Crime Narratives and Shame 7. Transformations of Shame