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Modernism and the culture of efficiency : ideology and fiction / Evelyn Cobley.
LIBRA PN56.M54 C63 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cobley, Evelyn.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Modernism (Literature).
- Industrial efficiency--Social aspects.
- Industrial efficiency.
- Technological innovations--Social aspects.
- Technological innovations.
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Technology in literature.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 344 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Part 1 The Culture of Efficiency in Society
- 1 Efficiency and the Great Exhibition of 1851: Elation and Doubt 25
- 2 Efficient Machines and Docile Bodies: Henry Ford and F.W. Taylor 38
- 3 An Experiment in (In)Efficient Organization and Social Engineering: Auschwitz 77
- 4 Efficiency and Disciplinary Power: The Iron Cage and the Suburb 113
- Part 2 The Culture of Efficiency in Fiction
- 5 Efficiency and Population Control: Wells, Shaw, Orwell, Forster 153
- 6 'Criminal' Efficiency: Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness 185
- 7 Efficient Management: D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love 203
- 8 Efficiency and Perverse Outcomes: Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier 224
- 9 Efficiency and Its Alternatives: E.M. Forster's Howards End 246
- 10 Efficiency and the Perfect Society: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World 282.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-333) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780802099570
- 0802099572
- OCLC:
- 319932289
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