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Exploring Downton Abbey : critical essays / edited by Scott F. Stoddart.
Van Pelt Library PN1992.77.D735 E97 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Downton Abbey (Television program).
- Upper class--England--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Upper class.
- Household employees.
- Manners and customs.
- Country homes.
- History.
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Great Britain.
- Country homes--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Household employees--Social life and customs.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 228 pages ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2018]
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments - Introduction
- Cast of characters
- The main house, the contexts at Downton : "Even Elizabeth Bennet paid to see what Pemberley was like inside" : the Manor House as character / Michael Samuel and Scott F. Stoddart
- Revisiting Gosford Park: Downton Abbey, American audiences and the British heritage genre / Gayle Sherwood Magee ; The Entrance Hall, understanding history and Downton Abbey: series two of Downton Abbey : War! What are we good for? / Elizabeth Fitzgerald
- "There's always something": representing race / Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt
- Downton Abbey, the Jazz Age and adaptation to change / Ellen Hernandez ; The library: the man's domain
- "Not family friendly" : Downton Abbey and the specter of male same-sex kissing / Anthony Guy Patricia
- Wearing the trousers: "female" voices in "male" spaces / Joy E. Morrow ; M'Lady's chamber : the women of Downton Abbey : Feminist tendencies / Jennifer Harrison
- "Damaged" first, romance later : the patterning of courtship on Lady Mary Crawley / Rachel L. Carazo)
- Lady Sybil must die : class and gender constraints / Mary Ruth Marotte
- "We are allies, my dear" : defining British and American national identity / Melissa Wehler ; The Servants' Hall: The downstairs domestic : servant femininity / Courtney Pina Miller
- "Education is for everyone" : education and the American dream / Katrin Suhren
- "We're all in this together!," big society themes / Gill Jamieson
- About the contributors - Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0786476885
- 9780786476886
- OCLC:
- 1007068081
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