Download or read book Victorian Servants, Class, and the Politics of Literacy written by Jean Fernandez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilizing an array of cultural texts, fiction, servant autobiography, diaries and pamphlets, this study examines the debate on mass literacy as it developed around the figure of the Victorian servant, as well as its significance for understanding the nexus between class and narrative power in nineteenth-century literature.