Be it ever so humble [electronic resource] : poverty, fiction, and the invention of the middle-class home / Scott R. MacKenzie.
Series: Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial PrizePublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.Description: x, 292 pISBN:- 9780813933412 (cloth alk. paper)
- 9780813933429 (e-book)
- Poverty, fiction, and the invention of the middle-class home
- Home in literature
- English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- Middle class in literature
- Nationalism in literature
- Social structure -- England -- History -- 18th century
- Poverty -- Government policy -- England
- English literature -- Scottish authors -- History and criticism
- Literature and society -- History -- 18th century
- 823/.6093564 23
- PR858.H65 M33 2013eb
eBooks
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.