Umfang:
VIII, 210 S.
,
23 cm
ISBN:
9781137365255
Inhalt:
Introduction: "Kitchen literature" -- "Let nothing ever induce you to read novels": servants and sensationalism in the mid-nineteenth century -- "Merely telling the truth": servants' stories in Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights -- "No human being ever was created for this": the servant victim in the works of Wilkie Collins -- "Privileged spies": the criminal servant in Lady Audley's Secret -- "She had her rôle to play": East Lynne and the servant actress -- "We will still be husband and wife": the servant as spouse in Gaskell's The grey woman -- "The stuff of lurid fiction": sensation fiction in the twenty-first century
Anmerkung:
Introduction: "Kitchen literature""Let nothing ever induce you to read novels": servants and sensationalism in the mid-nineteenth century -- "Merely telling the truth": servants' stories in Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights -- "No human being ever was created for this": the servant victim in the works of Wilkie Collins -- "Privileged spies": the criminal servant in Lady Audley's Secret -- "She had her rôle to play": East Lynne and the servant actress -- "We will still be husband and wife": the servant as spouse in Gaskell's The grey woman -- "The stuff of lurid fiction": sensation fiction in the twenty-first century.
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Steere, Elizabeth The female servant and sensation fiction Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 ISBN 9781137365262
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1137365269
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Anglistik
Schlagwort(e):
Englisch
;
Sensationsroman
;
Frauenliteratur
;
Diener
;
Klassengesellschaft
;
Geschichte 1847-1883
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