Servant's Hand

English Fiction from Below

Häftad, Engelska, 1993

Av Bruce Robbins

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A work of innovative literary and cultural history, The Servant's Hand examines the representation of servants in nineteenth-century British fiction. Wandering in the margins of these texts that are not about them, servants are visible only as anachronistic appendages to their masters and as functions of traditional narrative form. Yet their persistence, Robbins argues, signals more than the absence of the "ordinary people" they are taken to represent. Robbins's argument offers a new and distinctive approach to the literary analysis of class, while it also bodies forth a revisionist counterpolitics to the realist tradition from Homer to Virginia Woolf. Originally published in 1986 (Columbia University Press), The Servant's Hand is appearing for the first time in paperback.

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Utgivningsdatum1993-09-09
Mått153 x 227 x 21 mm
Vikt472 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor280
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9780822313977

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Preface ixIntroduction: The Secret Pressure of a Working Hand 11. From Odysseus' Scar to the Brown Stocking: A Tradition 252. Impertinence: The Servant in Dialogue 533. Exposition: The Servant as Narrator 914. Agency: The Servant as Instrument of the Plot 1315. Recognition: The Servant in the Ending 167Conclusion: Commonplace and Utopia 205Notes 227Bibliography 239Index 255

“It is not simply one of the best books I know on nineteenth century English fiction; it is also one of the most powerful, inventive, and consistently interesting works of Marxist criticism. . .”-Andrew Parker, Amherst College "This is one of the best books of the last decade. . . remarkably original and important. Robbins's deep concern for literary and cultural theory supports and focuses his close attention to reading specific works as they arise from and function within a history lived and made by human beings. I don't know a better example of the connections between literary and cultural studies."-Jonathan Arac, University of Pittsburgh