Victorian servants, class, and the politics of literacy / Jean Fernandez.

Author/creator Fernandez, Jean, 1956-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge,
Description207 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
English fiction--19th century. --History and criticism.
Servants in literature.
Household employees in literature.
Literacy in literature.
Social classes in literature.
Household employees--Great Britain. --Biography. --History and criticism.
Household employees--Education. --Great Britain. --History. --19th century.
Working class--Books and reading. --Great Britain. --History. --19th century.
Literacy--Great Britain. --History. --19th century.

SeriesRoutledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 2
Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature 2. ^A1047820
Contents 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) -- Oral pleasures: repression and desire in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1847) and Elizabeth Gaskell's The old nurse's story (1862) -- Obedient servants of empire: narrating imperial history in William Wilkie Collins' The moonstone (1868) -- "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) -- The ventriloquized servant -- In their own voice: servants and autobiography.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [193]-203) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2009011138
ISBN9780415804387
ISBN0415804388
ISBN9780203870884 (ebk.)
ISBN0203870883 (ebk.)

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