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"This is a unique account of the hidden history of servants and their employers in late eighteenth-century England and of how servants thought about and articulated their resentments. It is a book which encompasses state formation and the maidservant pounding away at dirty nappies in the back kitchen; taxes on the servant's labour and the knives he cleaned, the water he fetched, and the privy he shovelled out. Carolyn Steedman shows how deeply entwined all of these entities, objects and people were in the imagination of those doing the shovelling and pounding and in the political philosophies that attempted to make sense of it all. Rather than fitting domestic service into conventional narratives of industrial revolution' or the making of the English working class' she offers instead a profound re-reading of this formative period in English social history which restores the servants' lost labours to their rightful place"--Provided by publisher.

History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1700-1799 --- Household employees --- Country homes --- Employés de maison --- Maisons de campagne --- History --- Histoire --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- Social life and customs --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Employés de maison --- Domestic employees --- Domestic service employees --- Domestic service workers --- Domestics --- Household staff --- Household workers --- Servants --- Service employees, Domestic --- Service workers, Domestic --- Employees --- Architecture, Rural --- Rural architecture --- Dwellings --- Park gate lodges --- Employées de maison --- 18e siècle

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Archives. --- History --- Memory (Philosophy) --- Culture --- Philosophy. --- History. --- Philosophy --- Memory (Philosophy). --- Archives --- History, Modern --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Documents --- Manuscript depositories --- Manuscript repositories --- Manuscripts --- Documentation --- Information services --- Records --- Cartularies --- Charters --- Diplomatics --- Public records --- Social aspects --- Depositories --- Repositories --- History - Philosophy. --- Culture - History. --- History - Philosophy --- Culture - History

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This book concerns two men, a stockingmaker and a magistrate, who both lived in a small English village at the turn of the nineteenth century. It focuses on Joseph Woolley the stockingmaker, on his way of seeing and writing the world around him, and on the activities of magistrate Sir Gervase Clifton, administering justice from his country house Clifton Hall. Using Woolley's voluminous diaries and Clifton's magistrate records, Carolyn Steedman gives us a unique and fascinating account of working-class living and loving, and getting and spending. Through Woolley and his thoughts on reading and drinking, sex, the law and social relations, she challenges traditional accounts which she argues have overstated the importance of work to the working man's understanding of himself, as a creature of time, place and society. She shows instead that, for men like Woolley, law and fiction were just as critical as work in framing everyday life.

Working class --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- History --- Social conditions --- Employment --- Woolley, Joseph --- Nottingham (England) --- Great Britain --- Nottingham (Nottinghamshire) --- City of Nottingham (England) --- Borough of Nottingham (England) --- East Midlands (England) --- E-books --- Arts and Humanities

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Focusing on everyday legal experiences, from that of magistrates, novelists and political philosophers, to maidservants, pauper men and women, down-at-heel attorneys and middling-sort wives in their coverture, History and the Law reveals how people thought about, used, manipulated and resisted the law between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries. Supported by clear, engaging examples taken from the historical record, and from the writing of historians including Laurence Sterne, William Godwin, and E. P. Thompson, who each had troubled love affairs with the law, Carolyn Steedman puts the emphasis on English poor laws, copyright law, and laws regarding women. Evocatively written and highly original, History and the Law accounts for historians' strange ambivalent love affair with the law and with legal records that appear to promise access to so many lives in the past.

Law --- Legal history --- History. --- History and criticism

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Introduces readers to a wide range of research methods for use in English StudiesGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748683437','ISBN:9780748683444']);With a revised Introduction and with all chapters revised to bring them completely up-to date, this new edition remains the leading guide to research methods for final-year undergraduates, postgraduates taking Masters degrees and PhDs students of 19th- and 20th-century Literary Studies.Written by a range of distinguished contributors, each chapter centres on one particular method, offering both concrete practical advice on how to utilise it and exploring some of the methodological issues that are involved in the use of the particular method. The chapters cover research methods familiar to English scholars such as textual analysis, as well as those less commonly explored such as visual and quantitative methods, which also contribute significantly to research in English Studies. Other approaches discussed include auto/biographical methods, discourse analysis, interviewing, archival methods, ethnographic methods, oral history, creative writing as a research method, and research using information and communication technologies (ICTS).Key FeaturesOpens students minds to alternative research methodsIntroduces the research methodological vocabulary essential for describing methods used in a thesis and submitting good funding applicationsIntroduces debates surrounding the methods, encouraging professional development and engagement with the overall research context in nineteenth- and twentieth-century English StudiesOffers concrete examples of how methods might be used in English research"

English literature --- Research --- Methodology. --- Literature --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Methodology