Victorian servants, class, and the politics of literacy / / Jean Fernandez

• Autore: Fernandez Jean <1956-, >
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (218 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9/355
• Soggetto topico: English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; Household employees in literature; Literacy in literature; Social classes in literature; Household employees - Great Britain - Biography - History and criticism; Household employees - Education - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Working class - Books and reading - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Literacy - Great Britain - History - 19th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Victorian servants, class, and the politics of literacy
• ISBN: 1-135-20210-9; 1-135-20211-7; 1-282-28388-X; 9786612283888; 0-203-87088-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828446103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; ; 2.