The Female Servant and Sensation Fiction: 'Kitchen Literature' explores why Victorian sensation fiction was derided as literature fit only for maids and cooks and how the depictions of fictional female domestics, from Jane Eyre to Neo-Victorian novels, reflect contemporary social concerns about the blurring of the boundaries of class and gender.
Format: Hardback
CONTRIBUTORS: E. Steere
EAN: 9781137365255
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 3796 g
HEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED: 2013-10-30
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GENRE: FICTION / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
WIDTH: 140 cm
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Book Themes:
English, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Elizabeth Steere currently teaches in the English department at the University of West Georgia, USA. She earned her doctorate at the University of Georgia and has published articles focusing on class and gender issues in nineteenth-century British literature.
