Be it ever so humble [electronic resource] : poverty, fiction, and the invention of the middle-class home / Scott R. MacKenzie.

By: MacKenzie, Scott R, 1969-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial PrizePublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013Description: x, 292 pISBN: 9780813933429 (electronic bk.)Other title: Poverty, fiction, and the invention of the middle-class homeSubject(s): Home in literature | English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism | Middle class in literature | Nationalism in literature | Social structure -- England -- History -- 18th century | Poverty -- Government policy -- England | English literature -- Scottish authors -- History and criticism | Literature and society -- History -- 18th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 823/.6093564 LOC classification: PR858.H65 | M33 2013Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction: There's no case like home -- "Stock the parish with beauties": Henry Fielding's parochial vision -- An Englishwoman's workhouse is her castle: poverty management and the Radcliffean gothic -- Home and away: hegemony and naturalization -- There's no home-like place: out of doors in Scotland -- Conclusion: this home is not a house.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: There's no case like home -- "Stock the parish with beauties": Henry Fielding's parochial vision -- An Englishwoman's workhouse is her castle: poverty management and the Radcliffean gothic -- Home and away: hegemony and naturalization -- There's no home-like place: out of doors in Scotland -- Conclusion: this home is not a house.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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