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1 online resource |
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Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize |
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Introduction : There's no case like home -- "Stock the parish with beauties" : Henry Fielding's parochial vision -- An Englishwoman's workhouse is her castle : poverty management and the Radcliffean gothic -- Home and away : hegemony and naturalization -- There's no home-like place : out of doors in Scotland -- Conclusion : this home is not a house |
| Summary |
Before the rise of private homes as we now understand them, the realm of personal, private, and local relations in England was the parish, which was also the sphere of poverty management. Between the 1740s and the 1790s, legislators, political economists, reformers, and novelists transferred the parish system's functions to another institution that promised self-sufficient prosperity: the laborer's cottage. Expanding its scope beyond the parameters of literary history and previous studies of domesticity, this book posits that the modern middle-class home was conceived during the eighteenth century in England, and that its first inhabitants were the poor |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Home in literature.
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English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
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Middle class in literature.
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Nationalism in literature.
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Social structure -- England -- History -- 18th century
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Poverty -- Government policy -- England
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English literature -- Scottish authors -- History and criticism
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Literature and society -- History -- 18th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English fiction
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English literature -- Scottish authors
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Home in literature
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Literature and society
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Middle class in literature
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Nationalism in literature
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Poverty -- Government policy
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Social structure
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England
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012022706 |
| ISBN |
9780813933429 |
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0813933420 |
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