Menials explores major changes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British culture and society by examining how writers used representations of domestic servants to characterize and observe those changes. This book contextualizes fiction with economic theory and conduct texts, periodicals, and estate papers to demonstrate how "the servant problem" enabled Britons to work through a larger crisis in the representation of social and national subjectivity.
Menials explores major changes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British culture and society by examining how writers used representations of domestic servants to characterize and observe those changes. This book contextualizes fiction with economic theory and conduct texts, periodicals, and estate papers to demonstrate how "the servant problem" enabled Britons to work through a larger crisis in the representation of social and national subjectivity.
Kristina Booker is assistant professor of humanities at St. Gregory's University.
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgments Introduction: Becoming Nothing: Writing the Domestic Servant Chapter 1: Literary Servants and the Trouble with Self-Interest, Part 1 Chapter 2: Literary Servants and the Trouble with Self-Interest, Part 2 Chapter 3: "Within Proper Bounds": Domestic Servants and Emulation Anxiety Chapter 4: Domestic Idylls, Exotic Fruits: the Luxury of Foreign Servants Coda: Downstairs at Downton Abbey Bibliography Index About the Author
Acknowledgments Introduction: Becoming Nothing: Writing the Domestic Servant Chapter 1: Literary Servants and the Trouble with Self-Interest, Part 1 Chapter 2: Literary Servants and the Trouble with Self-Interest, Part 2 Chapter 3: "Within Proper Bounds": Domestic Servants and Emulation Anxiety Chapter 4: Domestic Idylls, Exotic Fruits: the Luxury of Foreign Servants Coda: Downstairs at Downton Abbey Bibliography Index About the Author
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