Victorian Novel, Service Work, and the Nineteenth-Century Economy

Informationen zum Autor Joshua Gooch is an Assistant Professor at D'Youville College in Buffalo, New York. His research focuses on intersections of work, power, and aesthetics in literature and film, particularly in relation to cultures with financialized economies, and includes essays on Samuel Butler, Joseph Conrad, Wes Anderson, and war films. Klappentext This book offers a much-needed study of the Victorian novel's role in representing and shaping the service sector's emergence. Arguing that prior accounts of the novel's relation to the rise of finance have missed the emergence of a wider service sector, it traces the effects of service work's many forms and class positions in the Victorian novel. Zusammenfassung This book offers a much-needed study of the Victorian novel's role in representing and shaping the service sector's emergence. Arguing that prior accounts of the novel's relation to the rise of finance have missed the emergence of a wider service sector! it traces the effects of service work's many forms and class positions in the Victorian novel. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Social Work of Unproductive Labor 2. Silas Marner: Narration as Work-Discipline 3. Our Mutual Friend: Service Work as Subject-Work 4. The Moonstone: Service Work as Narrative Work 5. The Way We Live Now: Service Work and Violence Conclusion, Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love My Work-Discipline Bibliography Index

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Social Work of Unproductive Labor
2. Silas Marner: Narration as Work-Discipline
3. Our Mutual Friend: Service Work as Subject-Work
4. The Moonstone: Service Work as Narrative Work
5. The Way We Live Now: Service Work and Violence
Conclusion, Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love My Work-Discipline
Bibliography
Index

Product details

• Authors: Joshua Gooch
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.08.2015
• EAN: 9781137525505
• ISBN: 978-1-137-52550-5
• No. of pages: 233
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture; Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth; Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture; Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; B, Literature, Fiction & related items, Fiction, Economic history, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Management science, Literature, general, European Literature, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, Biography, Literature & Literary studies, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, economy;finance;novel;service;social work;Victorian era