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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155206803321

Autore

Wilson Mary (Mary Elizabeth), <1977-, >

Titolo

The labors of modernism : domesticity, servants, and authorship in modernist fiction / / Mary Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-138-27030-X

1-315-55637-5

1-317-02643-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (187 pages)

Disciplina

823/.91093564

Soggetti

English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Household employees in literature

Master and servant in literature

Modernism (Literature)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Cooks at the threshold : domestic disturbances and modernist rewritings in Virginia Woolf -- 2. Writing at the margins : Stein's servant protagonists and the modernist form of Three lives -- 3. "Working like a colored person": race, service, and identity in Passing -- 4. Women in the attic : domestic servants, imperial paranoia, and modernist domesticity in Wide Sargasso Sea.