Intersectionalities of Class in Early Modern English Drama

Arab, Ronda; Ellinghausen, Laurie

Defining class broadly as an identity categorization based on status, wealth, family, bloodlines, and occupation, Intersectionalities of Class in Early Modern English Drama e xplores class as a complicated, contingent phenomenon modified by a wider range of social categories apart from those defining terms, including, but not limited to, race, gender, religion, and sexuality. This collection of essays – featuring a range of international contributors – explores a broad range of questions about the intersectional factors influencing class status in early modern England, including how cultural behaviors and non-class social categories affected status and social mobility, in what ways hegemonies of elite prerogatives could be disrupted or entrenched by the myriad of intersectional factors that informed social identity, and how class position informed the embodied experience and expression of affect, gender, sexuality, and race as well as relationships to place, space, land, andthe natural and civic worlds.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2024-08-27

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783031355660

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-35564-6

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 275