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
Autor principal: Cobley, Evelyn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Technology in literature.
Technological innovations > Social aspects.
Modernism (Literature)
Industrial efficiency > Social aspects.
English fiction.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Technologie dans la litterature.
Roman anglais > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Innovations > Aspect social.
Efficience dans l'industrie > Aspect social.
Modernisme (Litterature)
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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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