Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-168) and index.
Contents
Introduction: reading, writing, serving : the thresholds of modernism -- Cooks at the threshold : domestic disturbances and modernist rewritings in Virginia Woolf -- Writing at the margins : Stein's servant protagonists and the modernist form of three lives -- "Working like a colored person" : race, service, and identity in passing -- Women in the attic : domestic servants, imperial paranoia, and modernist -- Domesticity in Wide Sargasso Sea -- Conclusion : the labors of modernism.