The female servant and sensation fiction : 'kitchen literature' / Elizabeth Steere.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steere, Elizabeth, 1981-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Household employees in literature.

Valets in literature.

Women in literature.

Home economics in literature.

Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Women and literature.

Middle class women.

History.

Great Britain.

Popular literature--Great Britain--History and criticism.

Popular literature.

Middle class women--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

viii, 210 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Contents:

Introduction: "Kitchen literature"

"Let nothing ever induce you to read novels": servants and sensationalism in the mid-nineteenth century

"Merely telling the truth": servants' stories in Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights

"No human being ever was created for this": the servant victim in the works of Wilkie Collins

"Privileged spies": the criminal servant in Lady Audley's Secret

"She had her rôle to play": East Lynne and the servant actress

"We will still be husband and wife": the servant as spouse in Gaskell's The grey woman

"The stuff of lurid fiction": sensation fiction in the twenty-first century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137365255

1137365250

OCLC:

858007718