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UNINA9910809841803321 |
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Lesjak Carolyn <1963-> |
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Titolo |
Working fictions : a genealogy of the Victorian novel / / Carolyn Lesjak |
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Durham, : Duke University Press, 2006 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (285 p.) |
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Collana |
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Post-contemporary interventions |
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Soggetti |
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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 literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-261) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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Reconceptualizing Victorian literary history, Carolyn Lesjak argues that throughout the Victorian era, fiction reflected a preoccupation with labor in relation to pleasure. |
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