Menials

Domestic Service and the Cultural Transformation of British Society, 1650–1850

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British, Nonfiction, Entertainment, Drama, Anthologies, History
Cover of the book Menials by Kristina Booker, Bucknell University Press
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Author: Kristina Booker ISBN: 9781611488647
Publisher: Bucknell University Press Publication: November 20, 2017
Imprint: Bucknell University Press Language: English
Author: Kristina Booker
ISBN: 9781611488647
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Publication: November 20, 2017
Imprint: Bucknell University Press
Language: English

Menials argues that British writers of the long-eighteenth century projected their era’s economic and social anxieties onto domestic servants. Confronting the emergence of controversial principles like self-interest, emulation, and luxury, writers from Eliza Haywood, Daniel Defoe, and Samuel Richardson to Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, and William Thackeray used literary servants to critique what they saw as problematic economic and social practices. A cultural history of economic ideology as well as a literary history of domestic service, Menials traces the role of the domestic servant as a representation of the relationship between the master’s ideal self and the cultural forces that threaten it.

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Menials argues that British writers of the long-eighteenth century projected their era’s economic and social anxieties onto domestic servants. Confronting the emergence of controversial principles like self-interest, emulation, and luxury, writers from Eliza Haywood, Daniel Defoe, and Samuel Richardson to Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, and William Thackeray used literary servants to critique what they saw as problematic economic and social practices. A cultural history of economic ideology as well as a literary history of domestic service, Menials traces the role of the domestic servant as a representation of the relationship between the master’s ideal self and the cultural forces that threaten it.

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