Joshua Gooch

The Victorian Novel, Service Work, and the Nineteenth-Century Economy

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a much-needed study of the Victorian novel's role in representing and shaping the service sector's emergence. Arguing that prior accounts of the novel's relation to the rise of finance have missed the emergence of a wider service sector, it traces the effects of service work's many forms and class positions in the Victorian novel.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-52550-5
• 1st ed. 2015
• Seitenzahl: 233
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 429g
• ISBN-13: 9781137525505
• ISBN-10: 1137525509
• Artikelnr.: 42283119

Autorenporträt

Joshua Gooch is an Assistant Professor at D'Youville College in Buffalo, New York. His research focuses on intersections of work, power, and aesthetics in literature and film, particularly in relation to cultures with financialized economies, and includes essays on Samuel Butler, Joseph Conrad, Wes Anderson, and war films.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Social Work of Unproductive Labor
2. Silas Marner: Narration as Work-Discipline
3. Our Mutual Friend: Service Work as Subject-Work
4. The Moonstone: Service Work as Narrative Work
5. The Way We Live Now: Service Work and Violence
Conclusion, Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love My Work-Discipline
Bibliography
Index