03079nam 2200745 a 450 991081198880332120240418045253.00-8139-3342-0(CKB)2550000001102520(OCoLC)828101287(CaPaEBR)ebrary10648558(SSID)ssj0000819480(PQKBManifestationID)11410949(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000819480(PQKBWorkID)10844820(PQKB)11405898(MiAaPQ)EBC3444102(MdBmJHUP)muse25541(Au-PeEL)EBL3444102(CaPaEBR)ebr10648558(CaONFJC)MIL427270(EXLCZ)99255000000110252020120613d2013 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBe it ever so humble poverty, fiction, and the invention of the middle-class home /Scott R. MacKenzie1st ed.Charlottesville University of Virginia Press20131 online resource (304 p.) Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial PrizeBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8139-3341-2 1-283-96020-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: There's no case like home -- "Stock the parish with beauties": Henry Fielding's parochial vision -- An Englishwoman's workhouse is her castle: poverty management and the Radcliffean gothic -- Home and away: hegemony and naturalization -- There's no home-like place: out of doors in Scotland -- Conclusion: this home is not a house.Thus, the late eighteenth century proves to be a watershed moment in home's conceptual life, one that produced a remarkably rich and complex set of cultural ideas and images. A 2014 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title.Poverty, fiction, and the invention of the middle-class homeHome in literatureEnglish fiction18th centuryHistory and criticismMiddle class in literatureNationalism in literatureSocial structureEnglandHistory18th centuryPovertyGovernment policyEnglandEnglish literatureScottish authorsHistory and criticismLiterature and societyHistory18th centuryHome in literature.English fictionHistory and criticism.Middle class in literature.Nationalism in literature.Social structureHistoryPovertyGovernment policyEnglish literatureScottish authorsHistory and criticism.Literature and societyHistory823/.6093564MacKenzie Scott R.1969-1653587MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811988803321Be it ever so humble4004968UNINA