Female servant and sensation fiction, the: 'kitchen literature'
Auteur :
Steere, E.
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781137365255
Date de publication :
30 oct. 2013
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.