The Victorian Novel, Service Work, and the Nineteenth-Century Economy [electronic resource] /
Gooch, Joshua.author.
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.
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Machine generated contents note: -- 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.
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.
Economic history.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Fiction.
Literature.
Literature—History and criticism.
British literature.
Economic History.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Fiction.
Literature, general.
Literary History.
British and Irish Literature.