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200 10$aModernism and the culture of efficiency $eideology and fiction /$fEvelyn Cobley
210  1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2009.
210  4$dİ2009
215   $a1 online resource (355 p.) 
300   $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
311   $a0-8020-9957-2 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aEfficiency and the Great Exhibition of 1851 : elation and doubt -- Efficient machines and docile bodies : Henry Ford and F.W. Taylor -- An experiment in (in)efficient organization and social engineering : Auschwitz -- Efficiency and disciplinary power : the iron cage and the suburb -- Efficiency and population control : Wells, Shaw, Orwell, Forster -- "Criminal" efficiency : Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness -- Efficient management : D.H. Lawrence's Women in love -- Efficiency and perverse outcomes : Ford Madox Ford's The good soldier -- Efficiency and its alternatives : E.M. Forster's Howards end -- Efficiency and the perfect society : Aldous Huxley's Brave new world.
330   $aCobley's close readings of modernist British fiction by writers as diverse as Aldous Huxley, Joseph Conrad, and E.M. Forster identify characters whose attitudes and behaviour patterns indirectly manifest cultural anxieties that can be traced to the conflicted logic of efficiency.
606   $aModernism (Literature)
606   $aIndustrial efficiency$xSocial aspects
606   $aTechnological innovations$xSocial aspects
606   $aEnglish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism
606   $aTechnology in literature
608   $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.
608   $aElectronic books. 
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615  0$aTechnological innovations$xSocial aspects.
615  0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism.
615  0$aTechnology in literature.
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