Domestic affairs
Subtitle: intimacy, eroticism, and violence between servants and masters in eighteenth-century Britain
By: Kristina Straub.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801890499
Subjects: English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; Domestics in literature.; Master and servant in literature.; Social classes in literature.; Group identity in literature.; Gender identity in literature.; Domestics -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th century.; Family -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Domestic affairs; title: In the posture of children; title: Reading the woman servant: Pamela and Elizabeth Canning, 1740-1755; title: Roxana, Amy, and the crimes of Elizabeth Brownrigg, 1724-1767; title: Performing the man servant, 1730-1760; title: Men servants in the novel, 1740-1794; title: Conclusion: notes of a footman on "the servant problem," 1790.