Domestic Service and the Cultural Transformation of British Society, 1650–1850
by
Kristina Booker
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
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...