Be it ever so humble
MacKenzie, Scott R., 1969-
Be it ever so humble poverty, fiction, and the invention of the middle-class home / [electronic resource] : Poverty, fiction, and the invention of the middle-class home Scott R. MacKenzie. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013. - x, 292 p. - 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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
9780813933412 (cloth alk. paper) 9780813933429 (e-book)
Home in literature.
English fiction--History and criticism.--18th century
Middle class in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
Social structure--History--England--18th century.
Poverty--Government policy--England.
English literature--Scottish authors--History and criticism.
Literature and society--History--18th century.
Electronic books.
PR858.H65 / M33 2013eb
823/.6093564
Be it ever so humble poverty, fiction, and the invention of the middle-class home / [electronic resource] : Poverty, fiction, and the invention of the middle-class home Scott R. MacKenzie. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013. - x, 292 p. - 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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
9780813933412 (cloth alk. paper) 9780813933429 (e-book)
Home in literature.
English fiction--History and criticism.--18th century
Middle class in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
Social structure--History--England--18th century.
Poverty--Government policy--England.
English literature--Scottish authors--History and criticism.
Literature and society--History--18th century.
Electronic books.
PR858.H65 / M33 2013eb
823/.6093564