Chapter 7 Wooden shoes and Wellington boots : The politics of footwear in Georgian Britain

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Tác giả: Matthew McCormack

Ngôn ngữ: eng

ISBN-13: 978-0367706609

ISBN-13: 978-0367706616

ISBN: 97810031474287

Ký hiệu phân loại: 306.2 Political institutions

Thông tin xuất bản: New York ; London : Taylor & Francis, 2021

Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (17 p.)

Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở

ID: 225613

This chapter therefore makes a case for a political history of shoes, by bringing together these two rich fields. It will begin by thinking about the nature of political culture in the eighteenth century, where political virtue was evaluated in highly moral and gendered terms, and where shoes became the focus of debates about masculinity and citizenship. It will then turn its attention to citizenship in a national sense, to think about how certain types of leather shoes came to be seen as synonymous with Britishness, and how wearing them informed what it meant to live as a 'Briton.' Debates about politics and gender were inseparable from those on social class, and shoes worn by different social classes were loaded with political meaning. They also give us an insight into how people from different social classes moved and comported themselves. Focusing on the history of shoes in these ways can therefore show how embodiment should be central to our understanding of the practice of politics in eighteenth-century Britain.
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