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Menials argues that British writers of the long-eighteenth century projected their era's economic and social anxieties onto domestic servants. Confronting the emergence of controversial principles like self-interest, emulation, and luxury, writers from Eliza Haywood, Daniel Defoe, and Samuel Richardson to Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, and William Thackeray used literary

Title : Menials: Domestic Service and the Cultural Transformation of British Society, 1650-1850
Author : Kristina Booker
Language : en
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Uploaded : Apr 11, 2021

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