Description
Book SynopsisUsing a wide variety of sources this lively socio-cultural history examines household service, one of the largest, most multi-layered, most mobile and most indispensable sectors of employment in early modern England -- .
Trade ReviewAn impressive and accessible overview and adds greatly to our understanding of one of the defining features of the early modern era. . . Richardson is especially impressive when applying close textual analysis to drama, literature and contemporary commentary
Southern History, 33 (2011)
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Table of ContentsPreface
Contents
List if Illustrations
1. Studying household servants
2. The instabilities of representation: household servants in early modern drama
3. Self -representations of servants
4. Employing and serving
5. Housing, diet, dress, welfare, recreation and education
6. Servants, godly households and social engineering
7. Order and disorder in the household
8. The ‘servant problem’
9. Servants and the law
10. Early modern servants in perspective
Bibliography
Index
