Umfang:
vii, 233 Seiten
ISBN:
1137525509
,
9781137525505
Serie:
Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
Inhalt:
"The Victorian Novel, Service Work, and the Nineteenth-Century Economy offers a much-needed study of the novel's role in representing and shaping the nineteenth-century service sector. Arguing that prior accounts of the novel's relation to the rise of finance have missed the emergence of a wider service sector, Gooch traces the effects of service work's many forms and class positions in the Victorian novel. The novel registers the Victorian era's changing economic circumstances and political economy's increasingly fraught understanding of unproductive labour through its own work of narration, characterization, and plotting, and, in the process, comes to reimagine what it means to be employed and to see oneself as an employee. Novels by George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope, and Bram Stoker uncover the cultural, social, and affective experiences that inform these new experiences of work, from their revolutionary potential to their new forms of discipline. "--
Inhalt:
"The Victorian Novel, Service Work, and the Nineteenth-Century Economy offers a much-needed study of the novel's role in representing and shaping the nineteenth-century service sector. Arguing that prior accounts of the novel's relation to the rise of finance have missed the emergence of a wider service sector, Gooch traces the effects of service work's many forms and class positions in the Victorian novel. The novel registers the Victorian era's changing economic circumstances and political economy's increasingly fraught understanding of unproductive labour through its own work of narration, characterization, and plotting, and, in the process, comes to reimagine what it means to be employed and to see oneself as an employee. Novels by George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope, and Bram Stoker uncover the cultural, social, and affective experiences that inform these new experiences of work, from their revolutionary potential to their new forms of discipline. "--
Anmerkung:
Machine generated contents note: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.
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Gooch, Joshua, 1977 - The Victorian Novel, Service Work, and the Nineteenth-Century Economy Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015 ISBN 9781137525512
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1137525517
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781137525512
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Anglistik
Schlagwort(e):
Roman
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Englisch
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Dienstleistungssektor
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Arbeit
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Wirtschaft
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Geschichte 1837-1901
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Englisch
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Literatur
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Arbeit
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Wirtschaft
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Dienstleistungssektor
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Geschichte 1837-1901
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