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020 $a9780801890499 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aPR448.D66$bS77 2009
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100 1 $aStraub, Kristina,$d1951-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87853554
245 10 $aDomestic affairs :$bintimacy, eroticism, and violence between servants and masters in eighteenth-century Britain /$cKristina Straub.
260 $aBaltimore :$bJohns Hopkins University Press,$c2009.
300 $aix, 223 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [191]-214) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe "Servant Problem" and the Family -- $g2.$t"In the Posture of Children": Servants, Family Pedagogy, and Sexuality -- $g3.$tInterpreting the Woman Servant: Pamela and Elizabeth Canning, 1740 to 1760 -- $g4.$tDangerous Intimacies: Roxana, Amy, and the Crimes of Elizabeth Brownrigg, 1724 to 1767 -- $g5.$tPerforming the Manservant, 1730 to 1760 -- $g6.$tMen Servants' Sexuality in the Novel, 1740 to 1794 -- $tConclusion: Notes of a Footman on the "Servant Problem," 1790.
520 1 $a"From Daniel Defoe's Family Instructor to William Godwin's political novel Caleb Williams, literature written for and about servants tells a hitherto untold story about the development of sexual and gender ideologies in the early modern period. This original study explores the complicated relationships between domestic servants and their masters through close readings of such literary and nonliterary eighteenth-century texts." "The early modern family was not biologically defined. It included domestic servants who often had strong emotional and intimate ties to their masters and mistresses. Kristina Straub argues that many modern assumptions about sexuality and gender identity have their roots in these affective relationships of the eighteenth-century family. By analyzing a range of popular and literary works - from plays and novels to newspapers and conduct manuals - Straub uncovers the economic, social, and erotic dynamics that influenced the development of these modern identities and ideologies." "Highlighting themes important in eighteenth-century studies - gender and sexuality; class, labor, and markets; family relationships; and violence - Straub explores how the common aspects of human experience often intersected within the domestic sphere of master and servant. In examining the interpersonal relationships between the different classes, she offers new ways in which to understand sexuality and gender in the eighteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102755
650 0 $aHousehold employees in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94003949
650 0 $aMaster and servant in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85081989
650 0 $aSocial classes in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123925
650 0 $aGroup identity in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94007593
650 0 $aGender identity in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004327
650 0 $aHousehold employees$zGreat Britain$xSocial conditions$y18th century.
650 0 $aFamilies$xEconomic aspects$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0829/2008014660-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0829/2008014660-d.html
852 00 $bbar$hPR448.D66$iS77 2009
852 00 $bglx$hPR448.D66$iS77 2009