The Female Servant and Sensation Fiction: 'Kitchen Literature'
Author:   E. Steere
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2013
ISBN:  

9781349473700


Pages:   210
Publication Date:   01 January 2013
Format:   Paperback
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier.

Our Price $116.41 Quantity:  
Add to Cart

Share |

The Female Servant and Sensation Fiction: 'Kitchen Literature'


Overview

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.

Full Product Details

Author:   E. Steere
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2013
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   2.824kg
ISBN:  

9781349473700


ISBN 10:   1349473707
Pages:   210
Publication Date:   01 January 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier.

Table of Contents

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 Bibliography Index

Reviews

Author Information

Elizabeth Steere currently teaches in the English department at the University of West Georgia, USA. She earned her doctorate at the University of Georgia and has published articles focusing on class and gender issues in nineteenth-century British literature.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Countries Available

All regions
Latest Reading Guide

NOV RG 20252

 

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
 Shopping cart
Mailing List

 

Sign up now