Title Domestic affairs : intimacy, eroticism, and violence between servants and masters in eighteenth-century Britain / Kristina Straub

Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 223 pages) Contents The "servant problem" and the family -- "In the posture of children" : servants, family pedagogy, and sexuality -- Interpreting the woman servant : Pamela and Elizabeth Canning, 1740 to 1760 -- Dangerous intimacies : Roxana, Amy, and the crimes of Elizabeth Brownrigg, 1724 to 1767 -- Performing the manservant, 1730 to 1760 -- Men servants' sexuality in the novel, 1740 to 1794 -- Conclusion: Notes of a footman on "the servant problem," 1790 Summary This book explores the complicated relationships between domestic servants and their masters through close readings of such literary and non-literary eighteenth-century texts. Kristina Straub argues that many modern assumptions about sexuality and gender identity have their roots in these affective relationships of the eighteenth-century family. By analysing a range of popular and literary works - from plays and novels to newspapers and conduct manuals. Straub uncovers the economic, social, and erotic dynamics that influenced the development of these modern identities and ideologies. Highlighting themes important in eighteenth-century studies - gender and sexuality, class, labour, and markets, family relationships and violence Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-214) and index Notes Print version record Subject English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism Household employees in literature. Master and servant in literature. Social classes in literature. Group identity in literature. Gender identity in literature. Household employees -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th century Families -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English literature Families -- Economic aspects Gender identity in literature Group identity in literature Household employees in literature Household employees -- Social conditions Master and servant in literature Social classes in literature Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780801895111 0801895111

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