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Representing the Professions
Edward Gieskes
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Description for Representing the Professions
Hardback. Representing the Professions unites literary criticism, social and legal history, and Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of culture. It offers a detailed exploration of the professionalism of selected early modern disciplines in an effort to characterize those disciplines in their social, economic, and historical contexts. Num Pages: 365 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 167 x 25. Weight in Grams: 712.
Representing the Professions unites literary criticism, social and legal history, and Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of culture. It offers a detailed exploration of the professionalization of selected early modern disciplines in an effort to characterize those disciplines in their social, economic, and historical contexts. Unlike recent work on individual responses to social change, Representing the Professions discusses how developing professions responded to changes such as the Tudor centralization of authority, the enormous growth of legal business, the expansion of both literacy and an entertainment market, and the growth of the theater. The book moves between a broad and narrow historical focus ... Read more
Representing the Professions unites literary criticism, social and legal history, and Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of culture. It offers a detailed exploration of the professionalization of selected early modern disciplines in an effort to characterize those disciplines in their social, economic, and historical contexts. Unlike recent work on individual responses to social change, Representing the Professions discusses how developing professions responded to changes such as the Tudor centralization of authority, the enormous growth of legal business, the expansion of both literacy and an entertainment market, and the growth of the theater. The book moves between a broad and narrow historical focus ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
365
Condition
New
Number of Pages
365
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611492828
SKU
V9781611492828
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About Edward Gieskes
Edward Gieskes teaches Shakespeare and early modern drama at the University of South Carolina.
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