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991529
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b745899
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Fernandez, Jean,1956-
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| Title & Author
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Victorian servants, class, and the politics of literacy /\ Jean Fernandez.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Routledge,, 2010.
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Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ;; 2
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1 online resource
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| ISBN
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0203870883
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: 128228388X
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: 9780203870884
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: 9781135202064
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: 9781135202101
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: 9781135202118
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: 9781138878143
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: 9781282283886
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0415804388
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9780415804387
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Literary handmaids: Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria, or, The wrongs of woman (1798) and Catherine Crowe's Susan Hopley, or, The adventures of a maid servant (1841) -- Oral pleasures: repression and desire in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1847) and Elizabeth Gaskell's The old nurse's story (1862) -- Obedient servants of empire: narrating imperial history in William Wilkie Collins' The moonstone (1868) -- "Master's made away with": servant voices and narrational politics in R.L. Stevenson's The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) -- The ventriloquized servant -- In their own voice: servants and autobiography.
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Utilizing an array of cultural texts, fiction, servant autobiography, diaries and pamphlets, this study examines the debate on mass literacy as it developed around the figure of the Victorian servant, as well as its significance for understanding the nexus between class and narrative power in nineteenth-century literature.
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English fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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Household employees in literature.
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Household employees-- Education-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
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Household employees-- Great Britain-- Biography-- History and criticism.
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Literacy in literature.
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Literacy-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
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Servants in literature.
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Social classes in literature.
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Working class-- Books and reading-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
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English fiction.
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Household employees in literature.
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Literacy in literature.
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Literacy.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Social classes in literature.
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Working class-- Books and reading.
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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820.9/355
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| LC Classification
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PR878.S47T39 2010
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