The Servant′s Hand

“The relations [Robbins] perceives between servants and those they serve are dense with complexity and sophistication. . . . [This] magisterially learned and wide-ranging book looks backwards over social structures, tensions, and cooperations that have defined our shared past for centuries.” - Dinah Birch , London Review of Books

“It is not simply one of the best books I know on nineteenth century English fiction; it is also one of the most powerful, inventive, and consistently interesting works of Marxist criticism. . .” - Andrew Parker, Amherst College

"This is one of the best books of the last decade. . . remarkably original and important. Robbins's deep concern for literary and cultural theory supports and focuses his close attention to reading specific works as they arise from and function within a history lived and made by human beings. I don't know a better example of the connections between literary and cultural studies." - Jonathan Arac, University of Pittsburgh