ENGLISH

Master and servant

By Carolyn Steedman

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
0521874467, 9780521874465
Open Library ID
OL7767638M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2389761 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories
Edition
1
Pages
277\277
Library
torrents.ru tech collections 2009-11-14
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-01-11 02:35:34

Description

Leading historian Carolyn Steedman offers a fascinating and compelling account of love, life and domestic service in eighteenth-century England. The book, situated in the regional and chronological epicentre of E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, focuses on the relationship between a Church of England clergyman (the Master of the title) and his pregnant maidservant in the late eighteenth century. This case-study of people behaving in ways quite contrary to the standard historical account sheds new light on the much wider historical questions of Anglicanism as social thought, the economic history of the industrial revolution, domestic service, the poor law, literacy, education, and the very making of the English working class. It offers a unique meditation on the relationship between history and literature and will be of interest to scholars and students of industrial England, social and cultural history and English literature.

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