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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456580803321

Autore

Straub Kristina <1951->

Titolo

Domestic affairs [[electronic resource] ] : intimacy, eroticism, and violence between servants and masters in eighteenth-century Britain / / Kristina Straub

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-8018-9511-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Disciplina

820.9/3552

Soggetti

English literature - 18th century - History and criticism

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

Families - Economic aspects - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.