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The labors of modernism : domesticity, servants, and authorship in modernist fiction / Mary Wilson.
Van Pelt Library PR888.S47 W55 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilson, Mary (Mary Elizabeth), 1977-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Household employees in literature.
- Master and servant in literature.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Physical Description:
- x, 176 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2013.
- Contents:
- Introduction: reading, writing, serving: the thresholds of modernism
- Cooks at the threshold: domestic disturbances and modernist rewritings in Virginia Woolf
- Writing at the margins: Stein's servant protagonists and the modernist form of three lives
- "Working like a colored person": race, service, and identity in Passing
- Women in the attic: domestic servants, imperial paranoia, and modernist
- Domesticity in Wide Sargasso Sea
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-168) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781409443612
- 1409443612
- OCLC:
- 824608914
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