Working fictions : a genealogy of the Victorian novel /

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Reconceptualizing Victorian literary history, Carolyn Lesjak argues that throughout the Victorian era, fiction reflected a preoccupation with labor in relation to pleasure.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lesjak, Carolyn, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
Colección:Post-contemporary interventions.
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Temas:
1800-1899
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Authors, English > 19th century > Political and social views.
Working class in literature.
Work in literature.
Pleasure in literature.
Social conflict in literature.
Economics in literature.
Capitalism in literature.
Industrialization in literature.
Labor in literature.
Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Travailleurs dans la littérature.
Travail dans la littérature.
Plaisir dans la littérature.
Économie politique dans la littérature.
Capitalisme dans la littérature.
Industrialisation dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Labor in literature
Authors, English > Political and social views
Capitalism in literature
Economics in literature
English fiction
Industrialization in literature
Pleasure in literature
Social conflict in literature
Work in literature
Working class in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: A Genealogy of the Labor Novel
  • Part I: Realism Meets the Masses
  • 1. "How Deep Might Be the Romance": Representing Work and the Working Class in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton
  • 2. A Modern Odyssey: Felix Holt's Education for the Masses
  • Part II: Coming of Age in a World Economy
  • 3. Seeing the Invisible: The Bildungsroman and the Narration of a New Regime of Accumulation
  • Part III: Itineraries of the Utopian
  • 4. William Morris and a People's Art: Imagining the Pleasures of Labor
  • 5. Utopia, Use, and the Everyday: Oscar Wilde and a New Economy of Pleasure
  • Conclusion.

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