Controversy in seventeenth-century English coffeehouses: Transcultural interactions with an Oriental import
[Thesis]
Mary Lynn Pierce
Tabili, Laura
The University of Arizona
2015
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Committee members: Clancy-Smith, Julia; Darling, Linda
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-22505-0
Ph.D.
History
The University of Arizona
2015
By analyzing and contextualizing the polarized discourses on coffee and coffeehouses in post-1652 England, this dissertation argues that the divisive worldviews of the English population at this critical historical juncture shaped the contentious reception of coffee. Countless scholarly efforts dealing with seventeenth-century coffeehouses, those of London in particular, have helped explaining the rapid growing popularity of coffee and the establishments in which it was consumed, the coffeehouse. Building upon exiting literature, this work advances a new approach to shed light the interconnection between social and cultural anxieties, paradoxes and contradictions in seventeenth-century English society, and the contradictory discourses surrounding the rise of coffee in England.
History
Social sciences;Coffee;Cuckoldry;Manhood anxiety;Ottoman empire;Seventeenth-century england;Transcultural interactions