Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Straub, Kristina

Titel

Domestic affairs : intimacy, eroticism, and violence between servants and masters in eighteenth-century Britain

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Link zum Volltext

• Volltext

  Zugriff nur im Hochschulnetz der Universität Paderborn bzw. für autorisierte Benutzer

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-214) and index
• The "servant problem" and the family -- "In the posture of children" : servants, family pedagogy, and sexuality -- Interpreting the woman servant : Pamela and Elizabeth Canning, 1740 to 1760 -- Dangerous intimacies : Roxana, Amy, and the crimes of Elizabeth Brownrigg, 1724 to 1767 -- Performing the manservant, 1730 to 1760 -- Men servants' sexuality in the novel, 1740 to 1794 -- Conclusion: Notes of a footman on "the servant problem," 1790.
• This book explores the complicated relationships between domestic servants and their masters through close readings of such literary and non-literary eighteenth-century texts. Kristina Straub argues that many modern assumptions about sexuality and gender identity have their roots in these affective relationships of the eighteenth-century family. By analysing a range of popular and literary works - from plays and novels to newspapers and conduct manuals. Straub uncovers the economic, social, and erotic dynamics that influenced the development of these modern identities and ideologies. Highlighting themes important in eighteenth-century studies - gender and sexuality, class, labour, and markets, family relationships and violence