Victorian Servants, Class, and the Politics of Literacy by Jean Fernandez
By Jean Fernandez
In this quantity, Fernandez brings the under-examined determine of the Victorian servant out of obscurity for you to inform the tale of his or her come across with literacy, as imagined and represented in nineteenth-century fiction, autobiography, pamphlets and diaries. an unlimited physique of writing is exposed at the administration of servant literacy in Victorian periodicals, recommendation manuals, cartoons, sermons, books on family administration, and pornography, thereby revealing that the family sphere was once a vital conflict area within the conflict over mass literacy. through getting to how fictional and nonfictional texts of the age function literate servant narrators, she demonstrates how the difficulty of servant literacy as a cultural phenomenon has profound implications for our knowing of the nexus among category, mass literacy, voice and narrative energy within the 19th century. The examine reads canonical fiction by means of Mary Wollstonecraft, Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins, and R.L. Stevenson along renowned detective fiction by way of Catherine Crowe, the Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, and best-selling pamphlets of the age, whereas introducing to Victorian scholarship hitherto little identified or unknown servant autobiographies that handle lifestyles heritage as an engagement with literacy.
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