Explores the social and cultural history of bureaucratization in 19th-century Britain and France via the evolving literary portrayal of office life.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Daniel Jenkin-Smith is a postdoctoral researcher at Aston University, UK, and lecturer at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK. He specializes in English and French literature of the long 19th century and has published with Victorian Review, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and The European Journal of English Studies.
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List of figures Acknowledgements Note on translations Introduction: Bureaucratization and office literature · Clerkwatching · Bureaucracy, office and clerk: Two perspectives · Towards an 'office literature' Part I: Origins - 1810-1850 1. From the desk of Charles Lamb · 'The Good Clerk, A Character - With some account of "The Complete English Tradesman"' (1811) · 'The South-Sea House' (1820) · 'The Superannuated Man' (1825) 2. Mours administratives (1825): Jean-Gilbert Ymbert's 'Course in Administration' · 'Une sorte de Cours d'administration' · 'Un pays inconnu' · 'Tout a changé' 3. Physiological literature and the debut of the clerical 'type' · Sketching with 'Monsieur Prudhomme' and 'Boz' · 'Encyclopaedic' works · Parodies: Punch and the physiologies Part II: Convergences - 1830-1870 4. Characteristic institutions: The office and the novel · The mirror and the mire · The rise of the (office) novel 5. 'Secretary to society': Honoré de Balzac · Melmoth reconcilié (1835) · Un début dans la vie (1842) · Les Employés (1844) 6. 'A very little world': Charles Dickens · A Christmas Carol (1843) · David Copperfield (1849-50) · Bleak House (1852-53) Part III: Metamorphoses - 1860-1900 7. Changes in the office - and in office literature · The Office · Office literature 8. The limits of mimesis: Realist innovation in the office · Anthony Trollope, The Telegraph Girl (1877) · Joris-Karl Huysmans, À vau-l'eau (1882) and 'La Retraite de Monsieur Bougran' (1888/1964) 9. Out of time into eternity: Office literature's avant-garde conservatism · Georges Courteline, Messieurs les ronds-de-cuir (1893) · Arnold Bennett, A Man from the North (1898) Epilogue: Word and deed Notes Bibliography Index
List of figures Acknowledgements Note on translations Introduction: Bureaucratization and office literature · Clerkwatching · Bureaucracy, office and clerk: Two perspectives · Towards an 'office literature' Part I: Origins - 1810-1850 1. From the desk of Charles Lamb · 'The Good Clerk, A Character - With some account of "The Complete English Tradesman"' (1811) · 'The South-Sea House' (1820) · 'The Superannuated Man' (1825) 2. Mours administratives (1825): Jean-Gilbert Ymbert's 'Course in Administration' · 'Une sorte de Cours d'administration' · 'Un pays inconnu' · 'Tout a changé' 3. Physiological literature and the debut of the clerical 'type' · Sketching with 'Monsieur Prudhomme' and 'Boz' · 'Encyclopaedic' works · Parodies: Punch and the physiologies Part II: Convergences - 1830-1870 4. Characteristic institutions: The office and the novel · The mirror and the mire · The rise of the (office) novel 5. 'Secretary to society': Honoré de Balzac · Melmoth reconcilié (1835) · Un début dans la vie (1842) · Les Employés (1844) 6. 'A very little world': Charles Dickens · A Christmas Carol (1843) · David Copperfield (1849-50) · Bleak House (1852-53) Part III: Metamorphoses - 1860-1900 7. Changes in the office - and in office literature · The Office · Office literature 8. The limits of mimesis: Realist innovation in the office · Anthony Trollope, The Telegraph Girl (1877) · Joris-Karl Huysmans, À vau-l'eau (1882) and 'La Retraite de Monsieur Bougran' (1888/1964) 9. Out of time into eternity: Office literature's avant-garde conservatism · Georges Courteline, Messieurs les ronds-de-cuir (1893) · Arnold Bennett, A Man from the North (1898) Epilogue: Word and deed Notes Bibliography Index
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