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Domestic affairs : intimacy, eroticism, and violence between servants and masters in eighteenth-century Britain / Kristina Straub.
Van Pelt Library PR448.D66 S77 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Straub, Kristina, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- 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.
- Household employees.
- Families--Economic aspects--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Families.
- Families--Economic aspects.
- History.
- Social conditions.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 223 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-214) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801890499
- 0801890497
- OCLC:
- 221960687
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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