Lesjak / Fish / Jameson Working Fictions

A Genealogy of the Victorian Novel
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8834-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Post-Contemporary Interventions

Reconceptualizing Victorian literary history, Carolyn Lesjak argues that throughout the Victorian era, fiction reflected a preoccupation with labor in relation to pleasure.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lesjak, Carolyn

Fish, Stanley

Jameson, Fredric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknolwedgments ix

Introductions: A Genealogy of the Labor Novel 1

Part I. Realism Meets the Masses 21

1. “How Deep Might Be the Romance”: Representing Work and the working Class in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton 29

2. A Modern Odyssey: Felix Holt’s Education for the Masses 63

Part II. Coming of Age in a World Economy 85

3. Seeing the Invisible: The Bildungsroman and the Narration of a New Regime of Accumulation 89

Part III. Itineraries of the Utopian 137

4. William Morris and a People’s Art: Reimagining the Pleasures of Labor 141

5. Utopia, Use, and the Everyday: Oscar Wilde and a New Economy of Pleasure 181

Conclusion 205

Notes 215

Bibliography 251

Index 263

Über Autor(innen)

Carolyn Lesjak is Associate Professor of English at Swarthmore College.