Master and Servant: Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age

by Carolyn Steedman

Book Overview

Leading historian Carolyn Steedman offers a fascinating and compelling account of love, life and domestic service in eighteenth-century England. This book, situated in the regional and chronological epicentre of E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, focuses on the relationship between a Church of England clergyman (the Master of the title) and his pregnant maidservant in the late eighteenth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521697735
• ISBN13: 9780521697736
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"