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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1. Verfasser: MacKenzie, Scott R., 1969-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013
Schriftenreihe:Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource
Auszeichnungen:Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780813933429
0813933420

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