Menials: Domestic Service and the Cultural Transformation of British Society, 1650–1850
Author:   Kristina Booker
Publisher:   Associated University Presses
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Pages:   208
Publication Date:   20 November 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Menials: Domestic Service and the Cultural Transformation of British Society, 1650–1850


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Author:   Kristina Booker
Publisher:   Associated University Presses
Imprint:   Bucknell University Press,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.472kg
ISBN:  

9781611488609


ISBN 10:   1611488605
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   20 November 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Becoming Nothing: Writing the Domestic Servant Chapter 1: Literary Servants and the Trouble with Self-Interest, Part 1 Chapter 2: Literary Servants and the Trouble with Self-Interest, Part 2 Chapter 3: “Within Proper Bounds”: Domestic Servants and Emulation Anxiety Chapter 4: Domestic Idylls, Exotic Fruits: the Luxury of Foreign Servants Coda: Downstairs at Downton Abbey Bibliography Index About the Author

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Booker condenses a wealth of knowledge into one slim volume, and the ambitious scope of the broad timespan announced in the title is fulfilled, resulting in a well-informed snapshot of textual representations two-hundred-year period. It is rare to find in a single book material that is useful for scholars of both the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I came away from this text wanting to interrogate the ulterior motivations for the depiction of every servant in fiction (and drama), and this is something to be thankful for. * Eighteenth-Century Fiction *


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Kristina Booker is assistant professor of humanities at St. Gregory’s University.

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