03260nam 22007694a 450 991077798900332120081013040131.00-8223-8834-010.1515/9780822388340(CKB)1000000000758055(EBL)1169361(OCoLC)262341016(SSID)ssj0000394865(PQKBManifestationID)11295746(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000394865(PQKBWorkID)10425401(PQKB)10505981(MiAaPQ)EBC1169361262341016(MdBmJHUP)muse81173(DE-B1597)553812(DE-B1597)9780822388340(OCoLC)1224278003(EXLCZ)99100000000075805520081013d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWorking fictions[electronic resource] a genealogy of the Victorian novel /Carolyn LesjakDurham Duke University Press20061 online resource (285 p.)Post-contemporary interventionsDescription based upon print version of record.0-8223-3888-2 0-8223-3835-1 Includes 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.Reconceptualizing Victorian literary history, Carolyn Lesjak argues that throughout the Victorian era, fiction reflected a preoccupation with labor in relation to pleasure.Post-contemporary interventions.English fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismAuthors, English19th centuryPolitical and social viewsWorking class in literatureWork in literaturePleasure in literatureSocial conflict in literatureEconomics in literatureCapitalism in literatureIndustrialization in literatureEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.Authors, EnglishPolitical 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.823/.809355Lesjak Carolyn1963-1554213NcDNcDBOOK9910777989003321Working fictions3815318UNINA