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Author:   Jean Fernandez (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.317kg
ISBN:  

9781138878143

ISBN 10:   1138878146
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   23 April 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"List of Figures Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2 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 (1841) Chapter 3: Oral Pleasures: Repression and Desire in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights (1847) and Elizabeth Gaskell’s The Old Nurse’s Story (1862) Chapter 4: Obedient Servants of Empire: Narrating Imperial History in William Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone (1868) Chapter 5: ""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) Chapter 6: The Ventriloquized Servant Chapter 7: In their Own Voice: Servants and Autobiography Conclusion Notes Index"

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At their best, Fernandez's interpretations have the potential to unsettle and reinvigorate our thinking about these texts and about the larger questions of literacy and class in the period. - Victorian Studies

At their best, Fernandez's interpretations have the potential to unsettle and reinvigorate our thinking about these texts and about the larger questions of literacy and class in the period. - Victorian Studies

Author Information

Jean Fernandez is Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, US.

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