The Victorian novel, service work, and the nineteenth-century economy' offers a much-needed study of the novel's role in representing and shaping the nineteenth-century service sector. Arguing that prior accounts of the novel's relation to the rise of finance have missed the emergence...

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1. Verfasser:	Gooch, Joshua 1977- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Basingstoke [u.a.] Palgrave MacMillan 2015
Ausgabe:	1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:	Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1837-1901 Englisch Wirtschaft > Motiv Roman Dienstleistungssektor Arbeit > Motiv
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Zusammenfassung:	The Victorian novel, service work, and the nineteenth-century economy' offers a much-needed study of the novel's role in representing and shaping the nineteenth-century service sector. Arguing that prior accounts of the novel's relation to the rise of finance have missed the emergence of a wider service sector, Gooch traces the effects of service work's many forms and class positions in the Victorian novel. The novel registers the Victorian era's changing economic circumstances and political economy's increasingly fraught understanding of unproductive labour through its own work of narration, characterization, and plotting, and, in the process, comes to reimagine what it means to be employed and to see oneself as an employee. Novels by George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope, and Bram Stoker uncover the cultural, social, and affective experiences that inform these new experiences of work, from their revolutionary potential to their new forms of discipline
Beschreibung:	VII, 233 S.