The Servant's Hand - English Fiction from Below (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Columbia University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 1986
First published:	April 1986
Authors:	Bruce Robbins
Dimensions:	278 x 153 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Trade binding
Pages:	261
ISBN-13:	978-0-231-05966-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Promotions
LSN:	0-231-05966-3
Barcode:	9780231059664

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