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Author:

Steere, Elizabeth, 1981-

Title:

The female servant and sensation fiction : 'kitchen literature' / Elizabeth Steere.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

viii, 210 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Household employees in literature.
Valets in literature.
Women in literature.
Home economics in literature.
Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Popular literature--Great Britain--History and criticism.
Middle class women--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.
English fiction.
Home economics in literature.
Household employees in literature.
Literature and society.
Middle class women.
Popular literature.
Valets in literature.
Women and literature.
Women in literature.
Great Britain.
1800 - 1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

1137365250
9781137365255

OCLC:

(OCoLC)858007718

LCCN:

2013044379

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)