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Domestic Affairs: Intimacy, Eroticism, and Violence Between Servants and Masters
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- Book Title
- Domestic Affairs: Intimacy, Eroticism, and Violence Between Serva
- Publication Date
- 2008-12-23
- Pages
- 240
- ISBN
- 9780801890499
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
0801890497
ISBN-13
9780801890499
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66091341
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Domestic Affairs : Intimacy, Eroticism, and Violence Between Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Publication Year
2009
Subject
Family Law / General, Gender Studies, Social History, General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Subjects & Themes / General, Sociology / Marriage & Family
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Family & Relationships, Law, Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
18.6 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2008-014660
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Straub succeeds in providing valuable insights into how understandings of the servant-master relationship inflected and even drove her examples and were also involved in shaping understandings of gender, clas, and the family more broadly." -- Catherine Keohane, The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer, It is no longer possible to undertake scholarship on the non-elite in eighteenth-century England without seriously engaging with Straub's methodologies., Straub succeeds in providing valuable insights into how understandings of the servant-master relationship inflected and even drove her examples and were also involved in shaping understandings of gender, clas, and the family more broadly., ""It is no longer possible to undertake scholarship on the non-elite in eighteenth-century England without seriously engaging with Straub's methodologies.""
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
820.9/3552
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments1. The ''Servant Problem'' and the Family2. ''In the Posture of Children'': Servants, Family Pedagogy, and Sexuality3. Interpreting the Woman Servant: Pamela and Elizabeth Canning, 1740 to 17604. Dangerous Intimacies: Roxana, Amy, and the Crimes of Elizabeth Brownrigg, 1724 to 17675. Performing the Manservant, 1730 to 17606. Men Servants' Sexuality in the Novel, 1740 to 1794Conclusion: Notes of a Footman on the ''Servant Problem,'' 1790NotesIndex
Synopsis
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., 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 ......, 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.
LC Classification Number
PR448.D66S77 2008
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