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The Servant's Hand: English Fiction from Below

By Bruce Robbins

Book information

Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Year
1993
ISBN
0822313979, 9780822313977
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7073397 bytes)
Pages
280\272
Time added
2024-09-22 08:36:01

Description

A work of innovative literary and cultural history, The Servant's Hand examines the representation of servants in nineteenth-century British fiction. Wandering in the margins of these texts that are not about them, servants are visible only as anachronistic appendages to their masters and as functions of traditional narrative form. Yet their persistence, Robbins argues, signals more than the absence of the "ordinary people" they are taken to represent. Robbins's argument offers a new and distinctive approach to the literary analysis of class, while it also bodies forth a revisionist counterpolitics to the realist tradition from Homer to Virginia Woolf. Originally published in 1986 (Columbia University Press), The Servant's Hand is appearing for the first time in paperback.

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