Be it ever so humble poverty, fiction, and the invention of the middle-class home / [electronic resource] :
Poverty, fiction, and the invention of the middle-class home
Scott R. MacKenzie.
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.
- x, 292 p.
- Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize .
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.
9780813933429 (electronic bk.)
Home in literature. English fiction--History and criticism.--18th century Middle class in literature. Nationalism in literature. Social structure--History--England--18th century. Poverty--Government policy--England. English literature--Scottish authors--History and criticism. Literature and society--History--18th century.