04083oam 2200805I 450 991077820070332120230207230326.01-135-20210-91-135-20211-71-282-28388-X97866122838880-203-87088-310.4324/9780203870884 (CKB)1000000000783968(EBL)446795(OCoLC)635459507(SSID)ssj0000267341(PQKBManifestationID)11191619(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000267341(PQKBWorkID)10333902(PQKB)10725536(MiAaPQ)EBC446795(Au-PeEL)EBL446795(CaPaEBR)ebr10330898(CaONFJC)MIL228388(OCoLC)635459507 (EXLCZ)99100000000078396820180706d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrVictorian servants, class, and the politics of literacy /Jean FernandezNew York :Routledge,2010.1 online resource (218 p.)Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ;2Description based upon print version of record.1-138-87814-6 0-415-80438-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Literary Handmaids: Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria or The Wrongs of Woman (1798) and Catherine Crowe's Susan Hopley or The Adventures of a Maidservant (1841); 3 Oral Pleasures: Repression and Desire in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1847) and Elizabeth Gaskell's "The Old Nurse's Story" (1852); 4 Obedient Servants of Empire: Narrating Imperial History in William Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone (1868)5 "Master's Made Away With": Servant Voices and Narrational Politics in R. L. Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde (1886)6 The Ventriloquized Servant; 7 In Their Own Voice: Servants and Autobiography; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; IndexIn this volume, Fernandez brings the under-examined figure of the Victorian servant out of obscurity in order to tell the story of his or her encounter with literacy, as imagined and represented in nineteenth-century fiction, autobiography, pamphlets and diaries. A vast body of writing is uncovered on the management of servant literacy in Victorian periodicals, advice manuals, cartoons, sermons, books on household management, and pornography, thereby revealing that the domestic sphere was a crucial war zone in the battle over mass literacy. By attending to how fictional and nonfictional texRoutledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ;2.English fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismHousehold employees in literatureLiteracy in literatureSocial classes in literatureHousehold employeesGreat BritainBiographyHistory and criticismHousehold employeesEducationGreat BritainHistory19th centuryWorking classBooks and readingGreat BritainHistory19th centuryLiteracyGreat BritainHistory19th centuryEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.Household employees in literature.Literacy in literature.Social classes in literature.Household employeesBiographyHistory and criticism.Household employeesEducationHistoryWorking classBooks and readingHistoryLiteracyHistory820.9/355Fernandez Jean1956-,1481882MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778200703321Victorian servants, class, and the politics of literacy3699156UNINA