Precarious Labour and the Contemporary Novel

AvLiam Connell

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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This book is a major study of the presentation of work and workers in contemporary novels from India, North America and the UK. Drawing on lively recent theories about work, it shows how the novel is a crucial form for helping us to understand what work means in contemporary society.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-10-24
Mått:148 x 210 x 19 mm
Vikt:448 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:246
Upplaga:17001
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319639277

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Liam Connell is Senior Lecturer English Literature at the University of Brighton. He is the director of Brighton’s C21 Research group. He has written widely on contemporary literature and the questions globalization and transnationalism. He is the co-editor of Globalization and Literature: A Reader (2010).

Innehållsförteckning

1 Introduction.- 2 Reading Coupland Backwards: Time, Generationality and Work in Generation X, Microserfs and JPod.- 3 Precarity and Subjective Life: Matt Thorne’s Eight Minutes Idle and David Szalay’s London and the South East.- 4 Dying to Work: American Nationalism and the End of Productive Labour.- 5 Working Women and the Welfare State: Jenny Turner’s The Brainstorm.- 6 Conclusion.