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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Straub, Kristina, 1951-
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
Subjects:	English literature > 18th century > History and criticism. Household employees in literature. Master and servant in literature. Social classes in literature. Group identity in literature. Gender identity in literature. Household employees > Great Britain > Social conditions > 18th century. Families > Economic aspects > Great Britain > History > 18th century. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

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.