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Book SynopsisIn examining the interpersonal relationships between the different classes, she offers new ways in which to understand sexuality and gender in the eighteenth century.
Trade ReviewStraub 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. -- Catherine Keohane Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 2010
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
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
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