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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...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2013
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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 parish system's functions to another institution that promised self-sufficient prosperity: the laborer's cottage. Expanding its scope beyond the parameters of literary history and previous studies of domesticity, this book posits that the modern middle-class home was conceived during the eighteenth century in England, and that its first inhabitants were the poor. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (304 pages). |
| Récompenses: | Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize. |
| ISBN: | 9780813933429 |