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Be it ever so humble : poverty, fiction, and the invention of the middle-class home / Scott R. MacKenzie

Author
MacKenzie, Scott R., 1969-
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Poverty, fiction, and the invention of the middle-class home
Published
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.
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Language Note
English.
Contents
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.
Summary
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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ISBN
9780813933429 (electronic bk.)
0813933420 (electronic bk.)
9780813933412
0813933412
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Awards
Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize.
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