Working Fictions : A Genealogy of the Victorian Novel

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Genealogy of the Labor Novel -- PART I Realism Meets the Masses -- 1. ''How Deep Might Be the Romance'': RepresentingWork and theWorking Class in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton -- 2. A Modern Odyssey: Felix Holt&...
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Genealogy of the Labor Novel -- PART I Realism Meets the Masses -- 1. ''How Deep Might Be the Romance'': RepresentingWork and theWorking 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: Reimagining the Pleasures of Labor -- 5. Utopia, Use, and the Everyday: OscarWilde and a New Economy of Pleasure -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Ausführliche Beschreibung