Jean Fernandez

Victorian Servants, Class, and the Politics of Literacy (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Utilizing an array of cultural texts, fiction, servant autobiography, diaries and pamphlets, this study examines the debate on mass literacy as it developed around the figure of the Victorian servant, as well as its significance for understanding the nexus between class and narrative power in nineteenth-century literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135202118
• Artikelnr.: 43072089

Autorenporträt

Jean Fernandez is Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, US.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2 Literary
Handmaids: Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria or The Wrongs of Woman (1798) and
Catherine Crowe's Susan Hopley or The Adventures of a Maid Servant (1841)
Chapter 3: Oral Pleasures: Repression and Desire in Emily Bronte's
Wuthering Heights (1847) and Elizabeth Gaskell's The Old Nurse's Story
(1862) Chapter 4: Obedient Servants of Empire: Narrating Imperial History
in William Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone (1868) Chapter 5: "Master's Made
Away with": Servant Voices and Narrational Politics in R.L. Stevenson's
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(1886) Chapter 6: The
Ventriloquized Servant Chapter 7: In their Own Voice: Servants and
Autobiography Conclusion Notes Index