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From Daniel Defoe's Family Instructor to William Godwin's political novel Caleb Williams, literature written for and about servants tells a hitherto untold story about the development of sexual and gender ideologies in the early modern period. This original study explores the complicated relationships between domestic servants and their masters through close readings of such literary and nonliterary eighteenth-century texts.

The early modern family was not biologically defined. It included domestic servants who often had strong emotional and intimate ties to their...

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and 18^th Century Drama brings together the work of key playwrights from 1660 to 1800, divided into three main sections:

• Restoring the Theatre: 1660-1700
• Managing Entertainment: 1700-1760
• Entertainment in an Age of Revolutions: 1760-1800

Covering 20 major plays of the period, each of these sections offers an extraordinary wealth of print and online supplementary materials including primary critical sources, commentaries, illustrations, and reviews of...

Today Fanny Burney's venture into authorship would not be questionable. She was, after all, a daughter of a celebrated musician, and the Burney family was know to the circle of Samuel Johnson and Hester Thrale. Yet as Kristina Straub ably shows, the public recognition which followed the publication of her first novel placed Fanny Burney in a situation of disturbing ambiguity. Did she become famous or notorious? Was she a prodigy or a freak? In this study of Burney, Straub not only describes and analyzes the disturbing transition of a writer's self-awareness as a woman and a literary artist...

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and 18^th Century Drama brings together the work of key playwrights from 1660 to 1800, divided into three main sections:

• Restoring the Theatre: 1660-1700
• Managing Entertainment: 1700-1760
• Entertainment in an Age of Revolutions: 1760-1800

Covering 20 major plays of the period, each of these sections offers an extraordinary wealth of print and online supplementary materials including primary critical sources, commentaries, illustrations, and reviews of...