Victorian servants, class, and the politics of literacy
By: by Jean Fernandez.
Series: Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature -- 2
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780415804387; 9780203870884
Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Servants in literature; Domestics in literature; Literacy in literature; Social classes in literature; Domestics -- Great Britain -- Biography -- History and criticism; Domestics -- Education -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Working class -- Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Literacy -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Literary handmaids: Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria or The wrongs of woman (1798) and Catherine Crowe's Susan Hopley or The adventures of a maid servant; title: Oral pleasures: repression and desire in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1847) and Elizabeth Gaskell's The old nurse's story; title: Obedient servants of empire: narrating imperial history in William Wilkie Collins' The moonstone; title: "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); title: The ventriloquized servant; title: In their own voice: servants and autobiography.