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



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Autore: Straub Kristina <1951-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Domestic affairs : intimacy, eroticism, and violence between servants and masters in eighteenth-century Britain / / Kristina Straub Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (236 p.)
Disciplina: 820.9/3552
Soggetto topico: 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
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Domestic affairs  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8018-9511-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910822164003321
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