Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Poverty, fiction, and the invention of the middle-class home
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| ISBN: | 9780813933429
0813933420
9780813933412
0813933412
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Before the rise of private homes as we now understand them, the realm of personal, private, and local relations in England was the parish, which was also the sphere of poverty management. Between the 1740s and the 1790s, legislators, political economists, reformers, and novelists transferred the parish system's functions to another institution that promised self-sufficient prosperity: the laborer's cottage. Expanding its scope beyond the parameters of literary history and previous studies of domesticity, this book posits that the modern middle-class home was conceived during the eighteenth century in England, and that its first inhabitants were the poor.
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| Awards: | Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize.
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| Other form: | Print version: MacKenzie, Scott R., 1969- Be it ever so humble. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013 9780813933412
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| Standard no.: | ebr10648558
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