A Boiling Copper and Some Arsenic: Servants, Childcare, and Class Consciousness in Late Eighteenth-Century England.
An essay is presented on the history of servants, childcare and class consciousness in late eighteenth-century England. The author used the term class consciousness to depict articulated thoughts and feelings on social differences and distinction. She claims that class difference consciousness is a...
| Publicado en: | Critical Inquiry Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 36 - 78 |
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University of Chicago Press
Autumn2007
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| Sumario: | An essay is presented on the history of servants, childcare and class consciousness in late eighteenth-century England. The author used the term class consciousness to depict articulated thoughts and feelings on social differences and distinction. She claims that class difference consciousness is a learned thing. She noted that many historians attempted to understand and work on new techniques for uncovering this consciousness. |
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