The Female Servant and Sensation Fiction [electronic resource] : 'Kitchen Literature' /
Steere, E.author.
The Female Servant and Sensation Fiction: 'Kitchen Literature' explores why Victorian sensation fiction was derided as literature fit only for maids and cooks and how the depictions of fictional female domestics, from Jane Eyre to Neo-Victorian novels, reflect contemporary social concerns about the blurring of the boundaries of class and gender.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: 'Kitchen Literature'; 1 'Let nothing ever induce you to read novels': Servants and Sensationalism in the Mid-Nineteenth Century; 2 'Merely telling the truth': Servants' Stories in Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights; 3 'No human being ever was created for this': The Servant Victim in the Works of Wilkie Collins; 4 'Privileged spies': The Criminal Servant in Lady Audley's Secret; 5 'She had her rôle to play': East Lynne and the Servant Actress
6 'We will still be husband and wife': The Servant as Spouse in Gaskell's 'The Grey Woman'7 'The stuff of lurid fiction': Sensation Fiction in the Twenty-First Century; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Includes index.
The Female Servant and Sensation Fiction: 'Kitchen Literature' explores why Victorian sensation fiction was derided as literature fit only for maids and cooks and how the depictions of fictional female domestics, from Jane Eyre to Neo-Victorian novels, reflect contemporary social concerns about the blurring of the boundaries of class and gender.
Fiction.
British literature.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
Sociology.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Fiction.
British and Irish Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Gender Studies.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.