Working Fictions - A Genealogy of the Victorian Novel

Informationen zum Autor Carolyn Lesjak Klappentext A new view of the relationship between labor and pleasure in the Victorian imagination that significantly revises 19th century literary history. Zusammenfassung Reconceptualizing Victorian literary history! Carolyn Lesjak argues that throughout the Victorian era! fiction reflected a preoccupation with labor in relation to pleasure. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknolwedgments ix Introductions : A Genealogy of the Labor Novel 1 Part I. Realism Meets the Masses 21 1. “How Deep Might Be the Romance”: Representing Work and the working Class in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton 29 2. A Modern Odyssey: Felix Holt’s Education for the Masses 63 Part II. Coming of Age in a World Economy 85 3. Seeing the Invisible: The Bildungsroman and the Narration of a New Regime of Accumulation 89 Part III. Itineraries of the Utopian 137 4. William Morris and a People’s Art: Reimagining the Pleasures of Labor 141 5. Utopia, Use, and the Everyday: Oscar Wilde and a New Economy of Pleasure 181 Conclusion 205 Notes 215 Bibliography 251 Index 263

Product details

• Authors: Carolyn Lesjak, Carolyn Lesjak, Nancy Armstrong
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.01.2007
• EAN: 9780822338352
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3835-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literature - Classics / Criticism