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ISBN: 9780521697736 9780521874465 0521697735 0521874467 9786610959693 0511295782 0511294212 0511573820 0511618948 128095969X 051129655X 0511295014 9780511618949 1107181658 9780511296550 0511292619 9780511292613 9780511295782 9780511294211 9780511295010 6610959692 9781107181656 9780511573828 Year: 2007 Volume: 10 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press

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Leading historian Carolyn Steedman offers a fascinating and compelling account of love, life and domestic service in eighteenth-century England. This book, situated in the regional and chronological epicentre of E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, focuses on the relationship between a Church of England clergyman (the Master of the title) and his pregnant maidservant in the late eighteenth century. This case-study of people behaving in ways quite contrary to the standard historical account sheds new light on the much wider historical questions of Anglicanism as social thought, the economic history of the industrial revolution, domestic service, the poor law, literacy, education, and the very making of the English working class. It offers a unique meditation on the relationship between history and literature and will be of interest to scholars and students of industrial England, social and cultural history and English literature.


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Domestic affairs: intimacy, eroticism, and violence between servants and masters in eighteenth-century Britain
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ISBN: 9780801890499 0801890497 0801895111 9780801895111 Year: 2009 Publisher: Baltimore, Md Johns Hopkins University Press

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In examining the interpersonal relationships between the different classes, she offers new ways in which to understand sexuality and gender in the eighteenth century.

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History of civilization --- anno 1700-1799 --- Great Britain --- English literature --- Household employees in literature --- Master and servant in literature. --- Social classes in literature. --- Group identity in literature. --- Gender identity in literature. --- Household employees --- Families --- Littérature anglaise --- Employés de maison dans la littérature --- Employeur et employé dans la littérature --- Classes sociales dans la littérature --- Identité collective dans la littérature --- Identité sexuelle dans la littérature --- Employés de maison --- Familles --- History and criticism. --- Social conditions --- Economic aspects --- History --- Histoire et critique --- Conditions sociales --- Aspect économique --- Histoire --- Littérature anglaise --- Employés de maison dans la littérature --- Employeur et employé dans la littérature --- Classes sociales dans la littérature --- Identité collective dans la littérature --- Identité sexuelle dans la littérature --- Employés de maison --- Aspect économique --- Household employees in literature. --- Family --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Domestic employees --- Domestic service employees --- Domestic service workers --- Domestics --- Household staff --- Household workers --- Servants --- Service employees, Domestic --- Service workers, Domestic --- Employees --- Domestics in literature --- Social aspects

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