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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822164003321
• Autore: Straub Kristina <1951->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009
• ISBN: 0-8018-9511-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• 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
• 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: In examining the interpersonal relationships between the different classes, she offers new ways in which to understand sexuality and gender in the eighteenth century.