Unmasking the Loyal Maidservant in Germinie Lacerteux

Unmasking the Loyal Maidservant in Germinie Lacerteux

Jessica Rushton
Durham University

Jessica Rushton is an AHRC-funded PhD student at Durham University (UK). Her thesis focuses on the emergence of the rebellious maidservant figure in the nineteenth-century social imagination. She is also interested in investigating how the fears surrounding the nineteenth-century female servant are transposed and renewed in twentieth- and twenty-first-century French narratives via the modern maidservant avatar such as the nanny, the cleaner and the concierge.

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