Domestic affairs [electronic resource] : intimacy, eroticism, and violence between servants and masters in eighteenth-century Britain / Kristina Straub.
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TextPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.Description: ix, 223 pSubject(s): - English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- Household employees in literature
- Master and servant in literature
- Social classes in literature
- Group identity in literature
- Gender identity in literature
- Household employees -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th century
- Families -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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- PR448.D66 S77 2009eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-214) and index.
The "servant problem" and the family -- "In the posture of children" : servants, family pedagogy, and sexuality -- Interpreting the woman servant : Pamela and Elizabeth Canning, 1740 to 1760 -- Dangerous intimacies : Roxana, Amy, and the crimes of Elizabeth Brownrigg, 1724 to 1767 -- Performing the manservant, 1730 to 1760 -- Men servants' sexuality in the novel, 1740 to 1794 -- Conclusion: Notes of a footman on "the servant problem," 1790.
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