Menials : Domestic Service and the Cultural Transformation of British Society, 1650–1850
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Format
Hardback
ISBN-10
1611488605
ISBN-13
9781611488609
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Imprint
Bucknell University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 20th, 2017
Print length
208 Pages
Weight
472 grams
Dimensions
23.60 x 15.90 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Social & cultural history
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Menials argues that British writers of the long-eighteenth century projected their era’s economic and social anxieties onto domestic servants. Confronting the emergence of controversial principles like self-interest, emulation, and luxury, writers from Eliza Haywood, Daniel Defoe, and Samuel Richardson to Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, and William Thackeray used literary servants to critique what they saw as problematic economic and social practices. A cultural history of economic ideology as well as a literary history of domestic service, Menials traces the role of the domestic servant as a representation of the relationship between the master’s ideal self and the cultural forces that threaten it.
Menials argues that British writers of the long-eighteenth century projected their era’s economic and social anxieties onto domestic servants. Confronting the emergence of controversial principles like self-interest, emulation, and luxury, writers from Eliza Haywood, Daniel Defoe, and Samuel Richardson to Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, and William Thackeray used literary servants to critique what they saw as problematic economic and social practices. A cultural history of economic ideology as well as a literary history of domestic service, Menials traces the role of the domestic servant as a representation of the relationship between the master’s ideal self and the cultural forces that threaten it.
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