Losing Face: Shame, Society and the Self in Early Modern England

by Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos

Book Overview

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. Using insights drawn from the social sciences, the book investigates multiple meanings and manifestations of shame in everyday lives and across private and public domains, exploring the practice and experience of shame in devotional life and family relations,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032129271
• ISBN13: 9781032129273
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"