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Title The labors of modernism : domesticity, servants, and authorship in modernist fiction / Mary Wilson.
Author Wilson, Mary (Mary Elizabeth), 1977- author.
Publisher Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, [2013]
Copyright ©2013


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 DUE 18-10-23 BILLED  Standard  Library Level 9  English E888.S37 WIL  

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Description x, 176 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN 9781409443612 hardback : alkaline paper
Bibliography 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.
Library Class English E888.S37
Subject English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Servants in literature.
Household employees in literature.
Master and servant in literature.
Modernism (Literature)

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