Working fictions [electronic resource] : a genealogy of the Victorian novel / Carolyn Lesjak.
Material type: TextSeries: e-Duke books scholarly collection | Post-contemporary interventionsPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, 2006Description: x, 270 pSubject(s): English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Authors, English -- 19th century -- Political and social views | Working class in literature | Work in literature | Pleasure in literature | Social conflict in literature | Economics in literature | Capitalism in literature | Industrialization in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.LOC classification: PR871 | .L47 2006Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references (p. [251]-261) and index.
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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