LEADER 04116oam 2200817I 450 001 9910454274303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-135-20210-9 010 $a1-135-20211-7 010 $a1-282-28388-X 010 $a9786612283888 010 $a0-203-87088-3 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203870884 035 $a(CKB)1000000000783968 035 $a(EBL)446795 035 $a(OCoLC)635459507 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000267341 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11191619 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000267341 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10333902 035 $a(PQKB)10725536 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC446795 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL446795 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10330898 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL228388 035 $a(OCoLC)635459507 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000783968 100 $a20180706d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aVictorian servants, class, and the politics of literacy /$fJean Fernandez 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2010. 215 $a1 online resource (218 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ;$v2 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-87814-6 311 $a0-415-80438-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBook 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) 327 $a5 "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; Index 330 $aIn this volume, Fernandez brings the under-examined figure of the Victorian servant out of obscurity in order to tell the story of his or her encounter with literacy, as imagined and represented in nineteenth-century fiction, autobiography, pamphlets and diaries. A vast body of writing is uncovered on the management of servant literacy in Victorian periodicals, advice manuals, cartoons, sermons, books on household management, and pornography, thereby revealing that the domestic sphere was a crucial war zone in the battle over mass literacy. By attending to how fictional and nonfictional tex 410 0$aRoutledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ;$v2. 606 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHousehold employees in literature 606 $aLiteracy in literature 606 $aSocial classes in literature 606 $aHousehold employees$zGreat Britain$xBiography$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHousehold employees$xEducation$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aWorking class$xBooks and reading$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aLiteracy$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHousehold employees in literature. 615 0$aLiteracy in literature. 615 0$aSocial classes in literature. 615 0$aHousehold employees$xBiography$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHousehold employees$xEducation$xHistory 615 0$aWorking class$xBooks and reading$xHistory 615 0$aLiteracy$xHistory 676 $a820.9/355 700 $aFernandez$b Jean$f1956-,$0874584 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454274303321 996 $aVictorian servants, class, and the politics of literacy$91952754 997 $aUNINA