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The Victorian novel, service work, and the nineteenth-century economy

Title: The Victorian novel, service work, and the nineteenth-century economy / Joshua Gooch (Assistant Professor, D'Youville College, USA).
Author: Gooch, Joshua, 1977-
Publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Description

vii, 233 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"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. "--

Series Statement

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture

Uniform Title

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-225) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- The social work of unproductive labor -- Silas Marner: narration as work-discipline -- Our mutual friend: service work as subject-work -- The moonstone: service work as narrative work -- The way we live now: service work and violence -- Conclusion, or, How I stopped worrying and learned to love my work-discipline.

Call Number

JFD 15-4323

ISBN

9781137525505 (hardback)
1137525509 (hardback)

LCCN

2015004016

OCLC

903873687

Author

Gooch, Joshua, 1977- author.

Title

The Victorian novel, service work, and the nineteenth-century economy / Joshua Gooch (Assistant Professor, D'Youville College, USA).

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-225) and index.

Chronological Term

1800 - 1899

Research Call Number

JFD 15-4323

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