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Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion  \n‘Our Feverish Contact’Allan Conrad Christensen  \n2. Victorian Servants, Class, and the Politcs of Literacy  \nJean Fernandez  \nVictorian Servants, Class, and the Politics of Literacy  \nJean Fernandez  \nNew York London  \nFirst published 2010 by Routledge  \n270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016  \nSimultaneously published in the UK by Routledge  \n2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN  \nRoutledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business  \nThis edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2009.  \nTo purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s  \ncollection of thousands of [eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk](eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk).  \n© 2010 Taylor & Francis  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.  \nTrademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fernandez, Jean, 1956-  \nVictorian servants, class, and the politics of literacy / by Jean Fernandez.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).—(Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 2) Includes bibliographical references and index.  \n1. English fiction—19th century—History and criticism. 2. Servants in literature. 3. Domestics in literature. 4. Literacy in literature. 5. Social classes in literature. 6. Domestics—Great Britain—Biography—History and criticism. 7. Domestics—Education—Great Britain—History—19th century.  \n8. Working class—Books and reading—Great Britain—History—19th century.  \n9. Literacy—Great Britain—History—19th century. I. Title.  \nPR878 .S47T39 2003  \n820.9'355—dc22 2009011138  \nISBN 0-203-87088-3 Master e-book ISBN  \nISBN10: 0-415-80438-8 (hbk)  \nISBN10: 0-203-87088-3 (ebk)  \nISBN13: 978-0-415-80438-7 (hbk)  \nISBN13: 978-0-203-87088-4 (ebk)  \nContents  \nList of Figures vii  \nAcknowledgments ix  \n1 Introduction 1  \n2 Literary Handmaids: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Maria or The Wrongs of Woman (1798) and Catherine Crowe’s Susan Hopley or The Adventures ofa Maid Servant (1841) 29  \n3 Oral Pleasures: Repression and Desire in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights (1847) and Elizabeth Gaskell’s  \nThe Old Nurse’s Story (1862) 54  \n4 Obedient Servants of Empire: Narrating Imperial History in William Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone (1868) 87  \n5 “Master’s Made Away With”: Servant Voices and Narrational Politics in R. L. Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) 106  \n6 The Ventriloquized Servant 124  \n7 In Their Own Voice: Servants and Autobiography 147  \nConclusion 178  \nNotes 181  \nBibliography 193  \nIndex 205  \nFigures  \n1.1 The Idle Servant, Punch, January 24, 1863 14  \n1.2 The Force of Habit, Punch, September 29, 1883 15  \n2.1 The Servants’ Magazine 43  \n3.1 The Servants’ Magazine 55  \n6.1 Pamphlet 1850 133  \n7.1 The Servants’ Magazine 148  \nAcknowledgments  \nThis book could not have been written without the help and support I received from many well-wishers along the way. At the University of Iowa, Garrett Stewart encouraged and critiqued my project, from its very inception. Florence Boos introduced to me to working-class autobiography, and Teresa Mangum provided a wonderful training in culture studies. At the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, I am indebted to Jessica Berman for her judicious advice at different stages of the project. 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