Working fictions a genealogy of the Victorian novel
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Working fictions a genealogy of the Victorian novel
Author:
Lesjak, Carolyn, 1963-
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Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
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x, 270 p.
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Post-contemporary interventions
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Post-contemporary interventions.
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.
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