Master and Servant - Carolyn Steedman

Master and Servant

Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age
Buch | Softcover
276 Seiten
2007
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-69773-6 (ISBN)
38,65 inkl. MwSt
A fascinating account of love, life and domestic service in eighteenth-century England. The book focuses on the relationship between a Church of England clergyman and his pregnant maidservant and sheds new light on the history of domestic service, the poor law, literacy, education and the making of the working class.
Leading historian Carolyn Steedman offers a fascinating and compelling account of love, life and domestic service in eighteenth-century England. This 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.

Carolyn Steedman is Professor of History at the University of Warwick. Her previous publications include Strange Dislocations. Childhood and the Idea of Human Interiority, 1780–1980 (1995) and Dust (2001).

1. Introduction: on service and silences; 2. Wool, worsted, and the working class: myths of origin; 3. Lives and writing; 4. Labour; 5. Working for a living; 6. Teaching; 7. Relations; 8. The Gods; 9. Love; 10. Nelly's version; 11. Conclusion: Phoebe in Arcadia; Bibliography.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 12.7.2007
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories
Zusatzinfo 2 Maps
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 410 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Sozialgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-521-69773-5 / 0521697735
ISBN-13 978-0-521-69773-6 / 9780521697736
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