Unsettled
Subtitle: the culture of mobility and the working poor in early modern England
By: Patricia Fumerton.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press; University Of Chicago Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Barlow, Edward, b. 1642.; Working class writings, English -- History and criticism.; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Merchant mariners -- Great Britain -- Biography -- History and criticism.; Ballads, English -- Great Britain -- History and criticism.; Working class -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life.; Working class -- Great Britain -- Historiography.; Migrant labor -- Great Britain -- Historiography.; Working poor -- Great Britain -- Historiography.; Migration, Internal, in literature.; Seafaring life -- Historiography.; Working class in literature.; Autobiography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mobilizing the poor; title: London's economy of unsettledness; title: and beyond; title: Disguising the working poor: Harman's caveat; title: Unsettled subjectivity: the virtual "I"; title: "Not well settled in my mind"; title: Poor men at sea: "Never to be worth one groat afore a beggar"; title: Charting Barlow; title: The ballad's seaman: a constant parting.