Be it ever so humble
Subtitle: poverty, fiction, and the invention of the middle-class home
By: Scott R. MacKenzie
Series: Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780813933412; 9780813933429
Subjects: History and criticism; Nationalism in literature; Literature and society; English literature; Middle class in literature; Poverty; English fiction; Government policy; Scottish authors; Home in literature; Social structure; History
Other titles: Poverty, fiction, and the invention of the middle-class home
Description: "This is a first-rate book that makes a striking and original argument about British culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries." -- Back cover
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: There's no case like home; title: "Stock the parish with beauties": Henry Fielding's parochial vision; title: An Englishwoman's workhouse is her castle: poverty management and the Radcliffean gothic; title: Home and away: hegemony and naturalization; title: There's no home-like place: out of doors in Scotland; title: Conclusion: this home is not a house.