The Female Servant and Sensation Fiction: 'Kitchen Literature'

Steere, E.

The Female Servant and Sensation Fiction: 'Kitchen Literature' explores why Victorian sensation fiction was derided as literature fit only for maids and cooks and how the depictions of fictional female domestics, from Jane Eyre to Neo-Victorian novels, reflect contemporary social concerns about the blurring of the boundaries of class and gender.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2013-01-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349473700

DOI: 10.1057/9781137365262

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 210