Be it ever so humble : poverty, fiction, and the invention of the middle-class home /

Be it ever so humble : poverty, fiction, and the invention of the middle-class home /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	MacKenzie, Scott R., 1969-
Imprint:	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize
Subject:	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. English fiction. English literature -- Scottish authors. Home in literature. Literature and society. Middle class in literature. Nationalism in literature. Poverty -- Government policy. Social structure. England. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11173346

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Varying Form of Title:	Poverty, fiction, and the invention of the middle-class home
ISBN:	9780813933429 0813933420 9780813933412 0813933412
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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.
Awards:	Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize.
Other form:	Print version: MacKenzie, Scott R., 1969- Be it ever so humble. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013 9780813933412
Standard no.:	ebr10648558

Table of Contents:

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.