LEADER 03260nam 22007694a 450 001 9910777989003321 005 20081013040131.0 010 $a0-8223-8834-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822388340 035 $a(CKB)1000000000758055 035 $a(EBL)1169361 035 $a(OCoLC)262341016 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000394865 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11295746 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000394865 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10425401 035 $a(PQKB)10505981 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1169361 035 $a262341016 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse81173 035 $a(DE-B1597)553812 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822388340 035 $a(OCoLC)1224278003 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000758055 100 $a20081013d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWorking fictions$b[electronic resource] $ea genealogy of the Victorian novel /$fCarolyn Lesjak 210 $aDurham $cDuke University Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (285 p.) 225 1 $aPost-contemporary interventions 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8223-3888-2 311 $a0-8223-3835-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [251]-261) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aReconceptualizing Victorian literary history, Carolyn Lesjak argues that throughout the Victorian era, fiction reflected a preoccupation with labor in relation to pleasure. 410 0$aPost-contemporary interventions. 606 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAuthors, English$y19th century$xPolitical and social views 606 $aWorking class in literature 606 $aWork in literature 606 $aPleasure in literature 606 $aSocial conflict in literature 606 $aEconomics in literature 606 $aCapitalism in literature 606 $aIndustrialization in literature 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAuthors, English$xPolitical and social views. 615 0$aWorking class in literature. 615 0$aWork in literature. 615 0$aPleasure in literature. 615 0$aSocial conflict in literature. 615 0$aEconomics in literature. 615 0$aCapitalism in literature. 615 0$aIndustrialization in literature. 676 $a823/.809355 700 $aLesjak$b Carolyn$f1963-$01554213 801 0$bNcD 801 1$bNcD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777989003321 996 $aWorking fictions$93815318 997 $aUNINA