Download or read book The Female Servant and Sensation Fiction written by E. Steere and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Female Servant and Sensation Fiction: 'Kitchen Literature' explores why Victorian sensation fiction was derided as literature fit only for maids and cooks and how the depictions of fictional female domestics, from Jane Eyre to Neo-Victorian novels, reflect contemporary social concerns about the blurring of the boundaries of class and gender.