Introduction Special issue on early modern liminal domestic spaces

• Published in: Early modern literary studies pp. 1 - 2A
• Main Authors: Daniel, Robert W, Sheeha, Iman
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sheffield Matthew Steggle, Editor, EMLS 01.01.2020
• Subjects: Aristotle (384-322 BC); Culture; Etymology; Historiography; Households; Literary devices; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Surveillance; Thresholds; United Kingdom > UK; England

The most influential works of advice literature and household manuals in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries drew heavily on Xenophon's work, which was, in turn, influenced by Aristotle's.3 Here the idea that the household functioned as a microcosm of the State, and that order in the d...