Domestic affairs : intimacy, eroticism, and violence between servants and masters in eighteenth-century Britain / Kristina Straub.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In examining the interpersonal relationships between the different classes, she offers new ways in which to understand sexuality and gender in the eighteenth century.

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:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-214) and index.

ISBN:

0-8018-9511-1

OCLC:

551797543