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Be it ever so humble : poverty, fiction, and the invention of the middle-class home /
Before the rise of private homes as we now understand them, the realm of personal, private, and local relations in England was the parish, which was also the sphere of poverty management. Between the 1740s and the 1790s, legislators, political economists, reformers, and novelists transferred the par...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2013
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| Colección: | Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : There's no case like home
- "Stock the parish with beauties" : Henry Fielding's parochial vision
- An Englishwoman's workhouse is her castle : poverty management and the Radcliffean gothic
- Home and away : hegemony and naturalization
- There's no home-like place : out of doors in Scotland
- Conclusion : this home is not a house.