Domestic affairs [electronic resource] : intimacy, eroticism, and violence between servants and masters in eighteenth-century Britain / Kristina Straub.

By: Straub, Kristina, 1951-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009Description: 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 centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 820.9/3552 LOC classification: PR448.D66 | S77 2009Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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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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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