Author: Adelaide Sophia KilvertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Home economics
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Home Discipline, Or Thoughts on the Origin and Exercise of Domestic Authority. With an Appendix
Author: Adelaide Sophia KilvertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Home economics
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Home Discipline, or thoughts on the origin and exercise of domestic authority. With an Appendix. New Edition
Author: Adelaide Sophia KILVERTPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
In the Service of Empire
Author: Fae DussartPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350121177
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Despite recent research, the 19th-century history of domestic service in empire and its wider implications is underexplored. This book sheds new light on servants and their masters in the British Empire, and in doing so offers new discourses on the colonial home, imperial society identities and colonial culture. Using a wide range of source material, from private papers to newspaper articles, official papers and court records, Dussart explores the strategic nature of the relationship, the connection between imperialism, domesticity and a master/servant paradigm that was deployed in different ways by varied actors often neglected in the historical record. Positioned outside the family but inside the private place of the home, 'the domestic servant' was often the foil against which 19th-century contemporaries worked out class, race and gender identities across metropole and colony, creating those places in the process. The role of domestic servants in empire thus lay not only in the labour they undertook, but also in the way the servant-master relationship constituted ground that helped other power relations to be imagined and contested. Dussart explores the domestic service relationship in 19th-century Britain and India, considering how ideas about servants and their masters and/or mistresses spanned imperial space, and shaped peoples and places within it.
Kilvert's World of Wonders
Author: John TomanPublisher: Lutterworth Press
ISBN: 0718841778
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Kilvert's World of Wonders takes a fresh look at the Victorian era, one that does not turn away from the smoke stacks and crowded streets of popular imagining, but which sees them from the distance of the rural countryside. Though a countryman and lover of country ways, here the well know diarist is shown to be deeply stirred by what he saw as a society being changed and improved by science, technology, and by the liberal, enlightened ideas that were starting to circulate. The social changes seen by Kilvert resonated with the vision of progress that was imbued in him by his Victorian upbringing, and as a result his diaries can be seen as a response to these changes and not, as previous Kilvert scholarship suggests, as a simple record of country life. Toman's new work goes beyond the biographical and social realities of Kilvert's family by comparing them to almost twenty other middle-class families in order to show common factors in the familial experience of a rapidly changing society. At the heart of this re-evaluation of Kilvert's life and times is the theme of Wonder, various aspects of which are explored throughout. Away from the rapidly growing urban centres the effects of industrialisation are seen in a surprisingly positive light by Francis Kilvert, a fervent Christian coming to terms with the encroachments that science, scepticism and secularism were making upon religious faith and yet seeing all around him a 'world of wonders'.
Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi B. Bandinel
Author: Bibliotheca Somersetensis
Author: Emanuel GreenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bath (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Bibliotheca Somersetensis: Bath books. General introduction
Author: Emanuel GreenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bath (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi
Author: Bodleian LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
A Hand
Author: Kilvert's Diary and Landscape
Author: John TomanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
"Kilvert's Diary and Landscape" is an effort to tell the story of Francis Kilvert's life as well as to picture rural society, which Victorians were prone to idealize. Toman offers a complete revaluation of the man and his work.