Victorian servants, class, and the politics of literacy / Jean Fernandez.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Fernandez, Jean, 1956-

Series:

• Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 2.
• Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
• English fiction.
• Household employees in literature.
• Literacy in literature.
• Social classes in literature.
• Household employees--Great Britain--Biography--History and criticism.
• Household employees--Education--Great Britain--History--19th century.
• Working class--Books and reading--Great Britain--History--19th century.
• Working class--Books and reading.
• Literacy.
• History.
• Household employees.
• Education.
• Biography.
• Great Britain.
• Literacy--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2010.

Contents:

• Literary handmaids: Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria, or, The wrongs of woman (1798) and Catherine Crowe's Susan Hopley, or, The adventures of a maid servant (1841)
• Oral pleasures: repression and desire in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1847) and Elizabeth Gaskell's The old nurse's story (1862)
• Obedient servants of empire: narrating imperial history in William Wilkie Collins' The moonstone (1868)
• "Master's made away with": servant voices and narrational politics in R.L. Stevenson's The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
• The ventriloquized servant
• In their own voice: servants and autobiography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9780415804387
• 0415804388
• 9780203870884
• 0203870883

OCLC:

299714667

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