Author: John MacDonaldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Memoirs of an Eighteenth-century Footman, John Macdonald: Travels (1745-1779)
Author: John MacDonaldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Memoirs of an Eighteenth-century Footman, John Macdonald
Author: John MacDonaldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Memoirs of an Eighteenth-century Footman, John Macdonald
Author: John MacDonaldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Travelling Servants
Author: Kathryn WalchesterPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000638995
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This book outlines the contribution made by servants to domestic and Continental travel and travel writing between 1750 and 1850. Aiming to re-position British and European travel during this period as a site of work as well as leisure, Katheryn Walchester provides commentary and analysis of texts by servants not addressed in current scholarship. By reading texts contrapuntally, this book draws attention to repeated tropes and common patterns in the ways in which servants are featured in travelogues; and in so doing, offers an account of alternative modes of experiencing and writing about the Home Tour and the Grand Tour.
Women, Work & Sexual Politics in Eighteenth-century England
Author: Bridget HillPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773512702
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
In this fundamental reassessment of women's experience of work in eighteenth-century England, Bridget Hill examines how and to what extent industrialization improved the overall position of women and the opportunities open to them. Focusing on the most important unit of production, the household, Dr Hill examines women's work, not only in "housework" but also in agriculture and manufacturing, and reveals what women lost as the household's independence as a unit of economic production was undermined. Considering the whole range of activities in which women were involved, the increasing sexual division of labour is charted and its implications highlighted. The final part of the book considers how the changing nature of women's work influenced courtship, marriage and relations between the sexes.
Women, Work And Sexual Politics In Eighteenth-Century England
Author: Bridget HillPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135368848
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The author offers a reassessment of how women's experience of work in 18th- century England was affected by industrialization and other elements of economic, social and technological change.; This study focuses on the household, the most important unit of production in the 18th century. Hill examines the work done by the women of the household, not only in "housework" but also in agriculture and manufacturing, and explains what women lost as the household's independence as a unit of economic production was undermined.; Considering the whole range of activities in which women were involved - including many occupations unrecorded in censuses which have, therefore, been largely ignored by historians - Hill charts the increasing sexual division of labour and highlights its implications. She also discusses the role of service in husbandry and apprenticeship, as sources of training for women, and the consequences of their decline.; The final part of the book considers how the changing nature of women's work influenced courtship, marriage and relations between the sexes. Among the topics discussed are the importance of the women's contribution to setting up and maintaining a household; labouring women's attitudes to marriage and divorce and the customary alternatives to them; and the role of spinsters and widows. The author concludes by asking to what extent the industrial revolution improved the overall position of women and the opportunities open to them.; This series aims to re-establish women's history, and to challenge the assumptions of much mainstream history. Focusing on the modern period and encouraging perspectives from other disciplines, it seeks to concentrate upon areas of focal importance in the history of Britain and continental Europe.; Bridget Hill is the author of "Eighteenth-Century Women: An Anthology" and "The First English Feminist".
A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick
Author: Laurence SternePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520376137
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.
The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance
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ISBN:
Category : Literary and political reviews
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Domestic Affairs
Author: Kristina StraubPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801895111
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
From Daniel Defoe’s Family Instructor to William Godwin’s political novel Caleb Williams, literature written for and about servants tells a hitherto untold story about the development of sexual and gender ideologies in the early modern period. This original study explores the complicated relationships between domestic servants and their masters through close readings of such literary and nonliterary eighteenth-century texts. The early modern family was not biologically defined. It included domestic servants who often had strong emotional and intimate ties to their masters and mistresses. Kristina Straub argues that many modern assumptions about sexuality and gender identity have their roots in these affective relationships of the eighteenth-century family. By analyzing a range of popular and literary works—from plays and novels to newspapers and conduct manuals—Straub uncovers the economic, social, and erotic dynamics that influenced the development of these modern identities and ideologies. Highlighting themes important in eighteenth-century studies—gender and sexuality; class, labor, and markets; family relationships; and violence—Straub explores how the common aspects of human experience often intersected within the domestic sphere of master and servant. In examining the interpersonal relationships between the different classes, she offers new ways in which to understand sexuality and gender in the eighteenth century.
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