27 research outputs found
âSubjects and Objects: Material Expressions of Love and Loyalty in Seventeenth-Century Englandâ, in special section on âLoyalties and Allegiances in Early Modern Englandâ in Journal of British Studies Vol. 48: 4 (October, 2009)
This article investigates how and where the emotive relations between subject and state were forged and how these ideas were manifested in early modern England. McShane describes an affective economy of loyalty, embodied in cheap and accessible political commodities: decorated objects made of clay, metals, and paper, on which precious household resources of time, money and emotion were spent. She argues that by engendering, inculcating and insinuating codes of political love into peopleâs âemotional, sensual, representational, and communicativeâ lives, âloyalâ goods acted as vehicles and texts for what Victoria Kahn describes as âthe supplementary role of the passionsâ in âforging political obligationâ and the reformulation of âthe duty to loveâ of both subject and king in 17th-century England.
McShaneâs research contributes to a growing theme in scholarship, namely the active consumption of politically significant goods. This essay extends the range of objects under examination to include quotidian household items, shedding light on the dissemination and construction of early modern loyalty across a much wider social scale. The research draws on an extensive survey of collections held at the V&A, the Museum of London, Ashmolean Museum, Fitzwilliam Museum and Burrell Collection. Importantly, by putting illustrated print products back together with other political commodities in the early modern home, creating a broad archive of objects and text-objects where each informs the other, McShaneâs approach challenges the typical social historical methodology, which uses material culture as merely illustrative of textual sources.
This article was part of a special section on loyalty and allegiance in early modern England, co-edited by McShane with Dr Ted Vallance for one of the leading scholarly journals in the field. The material was drawn from a workshop on the topic held at the University of Liverpool funded by the British Academy, University of Liverpool and the Scouloudi Foundation (2007)
British âColonial governmentalityâ: slave, forced and waged worker policies in colonial Nigeria, 1896â1930
âThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Management & Organizational History on 22 Apr 2019, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449359.2019.1578669