Reviews
Straub succeeds in providing valuable insights into how understandings of the servant-master relationship inflected and even drove her examples and were also involved in shaping understandings of gender, clas, and the family more broadly.
It is no longer possible to undertake scholarship on the non-elite in eighteenth-century England without seriously engaging with Straub's methodologies.
Straub’s study is unprecedented in its particular focus; it treats sexuality and gender... and attends to relations of class and labor in ways very few studies do.
Book Details
Acknowledgments
1. The ''Servant Problem'' and the Family
2. ''In the Posture of Children'': Servants, Family Pedagogy, and Sexuality
3. Interpreting the Woman Servant: Pamela and Elizabeth Canning, 1740
Acknowledgments
1. The ''Servant Problem'' and the Family
2. ''In the Posture of Children'': Servants, Family Pedagogy, and Sexuality
3. Interpreting the Woman Servant: Pamela and Elizabeth Canning, 1740 to 1760
4. Dangerous Intimacies: Roxana, Amy, and the Crimes of Elizabeth Brownrigg, 1724 to 1767
5. Performing the Manservant, 1730 to 1760
6. Men Servants' Sexuality in the Novel, 1740 to 1794
Conclusion: Notes of a Footman on the ''Servant Problem,'' 1790
Notes
Index