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Exploring Downton Abbey : critical essays / edited by Scott F. Stoddart.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Downton Abbey (Television program).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (237 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company Inc. Publishers, 2018.
- Summary:
- "This collection of new essays explores how a series about life in an early 20th century English manor home resonated with American audiences. Topics include the role of the house in literature and film, the changing roles of women and the servant class, the influence of jazz and fashion, and attitudes regarding education and the class system"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- "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
- Series Two of Downton Abbey: War! What are we good for? / Elizabeth Fitzgerald
- "There's always something": Representing race in Downton Abbey / Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt
- Downton Abbey, the Jazz Age and adaptation to change / Ellen Hernandez
- "Not family friendly": Downton Abbey and the specter of male same-sex kissing / Anthony Guy Patricia
- Wearing the trousers: "Female" voices in "male" spaces in Downton Abbey / Joy E. Morrow
- Feminist tendencies in Downton Abbey / 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 in Downton Abbey / Mary Ruth Marotte
- "We are allies, my dear": Defining British and American nation identity in Downton Abbey / Melissa Wehler
- The downstairs domestic: Servant femininity in Downton Abbey / Courtney Pina Miller
- "Education is for everyone": Education and the American dream in Downton Abbey / Katrin Suhren
- "We're all in this together!": Big society themes in Downton Abbey / Gill Jamieson.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed April 14, 2018).
- ISBN:
- 1-4766-3220-0
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