By depicting the human political subject as exceptionally vulnerable, literary and philosophical writers portrayed the English as needing care from bodies imagined to be less than human in their physical sufficiency and therefore predisposed to se...Daugiau...
Human Insufficiency argues that early modern writers depict the human political subject as physically vulnerable in order to naturalize slavery. Representations of Man as a weak creature-poor and bare in King Lears words-strategically portrayed...Daugiau...
This book nuances the picture of domestic servants constructed by both early modern moralists and modern scholarship. It argues that domestic tragedy stages complex and varied service relationships. Focusing on the homes of the middling sorts, it...Daugiau...
Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy considerably advances existing scholarship on the institution of service in early modern culture and as represented on the early modern stage. With its focus on the homes of the middling sorts, t...Daugiau...
Serija: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 16501850
(Išleidimo metai: 20-Nov-2017, Hardback, Leidėjas: Bucknell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781611488609)
Menials explores major changes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British culture and society by examining how writers used representations of domestic servants to characterize and observe those...Daugiau...
In The Labors of Modernism, Wilson analyzes the unrecognized role of domestic servants in the experimental forms and narratives of Modernist fiction by Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Nella Larsen and Jean Rhys. She shows that the liminal position of...Daugiau...
In The Labors of Modernism, Wilson analyzes the unrecognized role of domestic servants in the experimental forms and narratives of Modernist fiction by Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Nella Larsen and Jean Rhys. She shows that the liminal position of...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 26-Apr-2013, Hardback, Leidėjas: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9780814738474)
In this study of literature and law from the Constitutional founding through the Civil War, Hoang Gia Phan demonstrates how American citizenship and civic culture were profoundly transformed by the racialized material histories of free, ensla...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 26-Apr-2013, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9780814771709)
In this study of literature and law from the Constitutional founding through the Civil War, Hoang Gia Phan demonstrates how American citizenship and civic culture were profoundly transformed by the racialized material histories of free, ensla...Daugiau...
Peter Lasletts comment, in The World We Have Lost, that in the early modern period every relationship could be seen as a love-relationship presents the governing idea of this book. In an analysis that includes Shakespeares sonnets and a wide rang...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Jan-2012, Hardback, Leidėjas: Northwestern University Press, ISBN-13: 9780810127814)
In The Aesthetics of Service in Early Modern England, Elizabeth Rivlin explores the ways in which servant-master relationships reshaped literature. The early modern servant is enjoined to obey his or her master out of dutiful love, bu...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Sep-2010, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252077753)
As slavery tore at the nation in the nineteenth century, the role of servants and slaves within the family became a heated topic, and publishers produced a steady stream of literature instructing households how to hire, treat, and discipline servants...Daugiau...
Serija: Studies in Twentieth-Century British Literature
(Išleidimo metai: 16-Sep-2010, Hardback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, ISBN-13: 9781433109409)
Levy (20th-century British and American literature, Western Connecticut State U.) examines the construction of lifeworlds of working and middle class women in Woolfs (1882-1941) critically neglected shorter fiction. From the earliest Phyllis and Ro...Daugiau...
Straub (literary and cultural studies, Carnegie Mellon U.) began researching power relations between servants and masters, but ended up writing as much about love, need, and a desire for connection as about class conflict and economic exploitation. H...Daugiau...
A study into how service interacted with other forms of dependency in Shakespeares drama. Considering the close associations of service and patronage with childhood or youth, marriage and friendship, Judith Weil sheds new light on social pra...Daugiau...
