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Menials : Domestic Service and the Cultural Transformation of British Society, 1650-1850.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Bucknell University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (209 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611488647
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: MenialsDDC classification:
  • 640/.460942
LOC classification:
  • HD8039.D52.B665 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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 -- "WITHIN PROPER BOUNDS": Domestic Servants and Emulation Anxiety -- DOMESTIC IDYLLS, EXOTIC FRUITS: The Luxury of Foreign Servants -- CODA: Downstairs at Downton Abbey -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR.
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.
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Intro -- 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 -- "WITHIN PROPER BOUNDS": Domestic Servants and Emulation Anxiety -- DOMESTIC IDYLLS, EXOTIC FRUITS: The Luxury of Foreign Servants -- CODA: Downstairs at Downton Abbey -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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