Victorian Novel, Service Work, and the Nineteenth-Century Economy

AvJoshua Gooch

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

This book offers a much-needed study of the Victorian novel's role in representing and shaping the service sector's emergence. Arguing that prior accounts of the novel's relation to the rise of finance have missed the emergence of a wider service sector, it traces the effects of service work's many forms and class positions in the Victorian novel.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-08-04
Mått:140 x 216 x 14 mm
Vikt:429 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Antal sidor:233
Upplaga:2015
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137525505

Utforska kategorier

Servicesektorn inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Ekonomisk historia inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Joshua Gooch is an Assistant Professor at D'Youville College in Buffalo, New York. His research focuses on intersections of work, power, and aesthetics in literature and film, particularly in relation to cultures with financialized economies, and includes essays on Samuel Butler, Joseph Conrad, Wes Anderson, and war films.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Social Work of Unproductive Labor2. Silas Marner: Narration as Work-Discipline3. Our Mutual Friend: Service Work as Subject-Work4. The Moonstone: Service Work as Narrative Work5. The Way We Live Now: Service Work and ViolenceConclusion, Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love My Work-DisciplineBibliographyIndex