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Author Lesjak, Carolyn, 1963-

Title Working fictions [electronic resource] : a genealogy of the Victorian novel / Carolyn Lesjak.

Imprint Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description x, 270 p.
Series Post-contemporary interventions
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Post-contemporary interventions.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-261) and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780822388340
0822388340
0822338351 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822338352 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822338882 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822338888 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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