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Explores the ways in which servant-master relationships reshaped literature. Rivlin shows that service is fundamentally a representational practice, in which the servant who acts for a master merges with the servant who acts as a master. Rivlin argues that in the early modern period, servants found new positions as subjects and authors found new forms of literature.

The Aesthetics of Service in Early Modern England

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      Publisher: Northwestern University Press
      Publication Date: 1/30/2012 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780810127814, 978-0810127814
      ISBN10: 0810127814

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      Book Synopsis
      Explores the ways in which servant-master relationships reshaped literature. Rivlin shows that service is fundamentally a representational practice, in which the servant who acts for a master merges with the servant who acts as a master. Rivlin argues that in the early modern period, servants found new positions as subjects and authors found new forms of literature.

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