Working fictions [[electronic resource] ] : a genealogy of the Victorian novel / / Carolyn Lesjak
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| Autore: |
Lesjak Carolyn <1963->
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| Titolo: |
Working fictions [[electronic resource] ] : a genealogy of the Victorian novel / / Carolyn Lesjak
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| Pubblicazione: | Durham, : Duke University Press, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (285 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 823/.809355 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-261) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Reconceptualizing Victorian literary history, Carolyn Lesjak argues that throughout the Victorian era, fiction reflected a preoccupation with labor in relation to pleasure. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Working fictions |
| ISBN: | 0-8223-8834-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910777989003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Post-contemporary interventions.