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Working fictions : a genealogy of the Victorian novel / Carolyn Lesjak.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lesjak, Carolyn, 1963-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Post-contemporary interventions.
- Post-contemporary interventions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Authors, English--19th century--Political and social views.
- Authors, English.
- Working class in literature.
- Work in literature.
- Pleasure in literature.
- Social conflict in literature.
- Economics in literature.
- Capitalism in literature.
- Industrialization in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (285 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Reconceptualizing Victorian literary history, Carolyn Lesjak argues that throughout the Victorian era, fiction reflected a preoccupation with labor in relation to pleasure.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-261) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822388340
- 0822388340
- OCLC:
- 262341016
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