Domestic Captivity and the British Subject, 1660-1750

by Catherine Ingrassia

In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain, captivity emerged as both persistent metaphor and material reality. The exercise of power on an institutional and personal level created conditions in which those least empowered, particularly women, perceived themselves to be captive subjects. This "domestic captivity" was inextricably connected to England's systematic enslavement of kidnapped Africans, even as early fictional narratives suppressed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813948088
• ISBN13: 9780813948089
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher