poverty, fiction, and the invention of the middle-class home /
Scott R. MacKenzie
London :
University of Virginia Press,
2013
x, 292 pages ;
24 cm
Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
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"This is a first-rate book that makes a striking and original argument about British culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries." -- Back cover
Poverty, fiction, and the invention of the middle-class home
English fiction-- 18th century-- History and criticism
English literature-- Scottish authors-- History and criticism
Home in literature
Literature and society-- History-- 18th century
Middle class in literature
Nationalism in literature
Poverty-- Government policy-- England
Social structure-- England-- History-- 18th century