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Master and servant : love and labour in the English industrial age / / Carolyn Steedman



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Autore: Steedman Carolyn Visualizza persona
Titolo: Master and servant : love and labour in the English industrial age / / Carolyn Steedman Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, c2007
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 263 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina: 640.46094209034
Soggetto topico: Household employees in literature - England - 18th century
Master and servant in literature
Labor - England - History - 19th century
Master and servant - England - History - 19th century
Industrial revolution - England - History - 19th century
Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Social conditions 19th century
Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: List of maps -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Introduction: On service and silences -- Wool, worsted and the working class: myths of origin -- Lives and writing -- Labour -- Working for a living -- Teaching -- Relations -- The gods -- Love -- Nelly's version -- Conclusion: Phoebe in Arcadia -- Bibliography -- Index.
Sommario/riassunto: Leading historian Carolyn Steedman offers a fascinating and compelling account of love, life and domestic service in eighteenth-century England. This book, situated in the regional and chronological epicentre of E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, focuses on the relationship between a Church of England clergyman (the Master of the title) and his pregnant maidservant in the late eighteenth century. This case-study of people behaving in ways quite contrary to the standard historical account sheds new light on the much wider historical questions of Anglicanism as social thought, the economic history of the industrial revolution, domestic service, the poor law, literacy, education, and the very making of the English working class. It offers a unique meditation on the relationship between history and literature and will be of interest to scholars and students of industrial England, social and cultural history and English literature.
Titolo autorizzato: Master and servant  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-107-18165-8
0-511-29421-2
1-280-95969-X
9786610959693
0-511-29655-X
0-511-29578-2
0-511-57382-0
0-511-61894-8
0-511-29501-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910811791903321
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Serie: Cambridge social and cultural histories ; ; 10.