| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 195 pages) |
| Series |
Transits: literature, thought & culture 1650-1850 |
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Transits (Bucknell University)
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| Contents |
CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: Becoming Nothing -- LITERARY SERVANTS AND THE TROUBLE WITH SELF-INTEREST, PART 1 -- LITERARY SERVANTS AND THE TROUBLE WITH SELF-INTEREST, PART 2 -- â#x80;#x9C;WITHIN PROPER BOUNDSâ#x80;#x9D;: Domestic Servants and Emulation Anxiety -- DOMESTIC IDYLLS, EXOTIC FRUITS: The Luxury of Foreign Servants -- CODA: Downstairs at Downton Abbey -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
| Summary |
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. Provided by Publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-189) and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Household employees -- Great Britain -- History
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- General.
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HOUSE & HOME -- Reference.
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Household employees
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021678213 |
| ISBN |
9781611488647 |
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1611488648 |
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