The Victorian Novel, Service Work, and the Nineteenth-Century Economy

2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-52550-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 233 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4091 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture

This book offers a much-needed study of the Victorian novel's role in representing and shaping the service sector's emergence. Arguing that prior accounts of the novel's relation to the rise of finance have missed the emergence of a wider service sector, it traces the effects of service work's many forms and class positions in the Victorian novel.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gooch, Joshua

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Social Work of Unproductive Labor
2. Silas Marner: Narration as Work-Discipline
3. Our Mutual Friend: Service Work as Subject-Work
4. The Moonstone: Service Work as Narrative Work
5. The Way We Live Now: Service Work and Violence
Conclusion, Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love My Work-Discipline
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Joshua Gooch is an Assistant Professor at D'Youville College in Buffalo, New York. His research focuses on intersections of work, power, and aesthetics in literature and film, particularly in relation to cultures with financialized economies, and includes essays on Samuel Butler, Joseph Conrad, Wes Anderson, and war films.