Carolyn Lesjak

Working Fictions

A Genealogy of the Victorian Novel

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Produktbeschreibung

A new view of the relationship between labor and pleasure in the Victorian imagination that significantly revises 19th century literary history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780822338352
• ISBN-10: 0822338351
• Artikelnr.: 21623870

Autorenporträt

Carolyn Lesjak is Associate Professor of English at Swarthmore College.

Inhaltsangabe

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