Modernism and the culture of efficiency : ideology and fiction /

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Cobley's close readings of modernist British fiction by writers as diverse as Aldous Huxley, Joseph Conrad, and E.M. Forster identify characters whose attitudes and behaviour patterns indirectly manifest cultural anxieties that can be traced to the conflicted logic of efficiency.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cobley, Evelyn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2009.
Temas:
1900-1999
Modernism (Literature)
Industrial efficiency > Social aspects.
Technological innovations > Social aspects.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Technology in literature.
Modernisme (Littérature)
Efficience dans l'industrie > Aspect social.
Innovations > Aspect social.
Roman anglais > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Technologie dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
English fiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Efficiency and the Great Exhibition of 1851 : elation and doubt
  • Efficient machines and docile bodies : Henry Ford and F.W. Taylor
  • An experiment in (in)efficient organization and social engineering : Auschwitz
  • Efficiency and disciplinary power : the iron cage and the suburb
  • Efficiency and population control : Wells, Shaw, Orwell, Forster
  • "Criminal" efficiency : Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness
  • Efficient management : D.H. Lawrence's Women in love
  • Efficiency and perverse outcomes : Ford Madox Ford's The good soldier
  • Efficiency and its alternatives : E.M. Forster's Howards end
  • Efficiency and the perfect society : Aldous Huxley's Brave new world.

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