Research Catalog

Title

Exploring Downton Abbey : critical essays / edited by Scott F. Stoddart.

Publication

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2018]

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Details

Additional Authors

Stoddart, Scott Frederick, 1960-

Description

viii, 228 pages; 26 cm

Subject

• Downton Abbey (Television program)
• Upper class > England > Social life and customs > 20th century
• Country homes > Great Britain > History > 20th century
• Household employees > Social life and customs
• PERFORMING ARTS / Reference
• Great Britain > Social life and customs > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Acknowledgments - Introduction -- Cast of characters -- The main house, the contexts at Downton : "Even Elizabeth Bennet paid to see what Pemberley was like inside" : the Manor House as character / Michael Samuel and Scott F. Stoddart -- Revisiting Gosford Park: Downton Abbey, American audiences and the British heritage genre / Gayle Sherwood Magee ; The Entrance Hall, understanding history and Downton Abbey: series two of Downton Abbey : War! What are we good for? / Elizabeth Fitzgerald -- "There's always something": representing race / Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt -- Downton Abbey, the Jazz Age and adaptation to change / Ellen Hernandez ; The library: the man's domain -- "Not family friendly" : Downton Abbey and the specter of male same-sex kissing / Anthony Guy Patricia -- Wearing the trousers: "female" voices in "male" spaces / Joy E. Morrow ; M'Lady's chamber : the women of Downton Abbey : Feminist tendencies / Jennifer Harrison -- "Damaged" first, romance later : the patterning of courtship on Lady Mary Crawley / Rachel L. Carazo) -- Lady Sybil must die : class and gender constraints / Mary Ruth Marotte -- "We are allies, my dear" : defining British and American national identity / Melissa Wehler ; The Servants' Hall: The downstairs domestic : servant femininity / Courtney Pina Miller -- "Education is for everyone" : education and the American dream / Katrin Suhren -- "We're all in this together!," big society themes / Gill Jamieson -- About the contributors - Index.

Call Number

MWGV (Great Britain) 18-2858

ISBN

• 0786476885
• 9780786476886

OCLC

1007068081

Title

Exploring Downton Abbey : critical essays / edited by Scott F. Stoddart.

Publisher

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Stoddart, Scott Frederick, 1960- editor.

Research Call Number

MWGV (Great Britain) 18-2858