1. ‘‘How Deep Might Be the Romance’’: RepresentingWork and theWorking Class in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: A Genealogy of the Labor Novel 1
5. PART I Realism Meets the Masses
6. 1. ‘‘How Deep Might Be the Romance’’: RepresentingWork and theWorking Class in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton 29
7. 2. A Modern Odyssey: Felix Holt’s Education for the Masses 63
8. PART II Coming of Age in a World Economy
9. 3. Seeing the Invisible: The Bildungsroman and the Narration of a New Regime of Accumulation 89
10. PART III Itineraries of the Utopian
11. 4.William Morris and a People’s Art: Reimagining the Pleasures of Labor 141
12. 5. Utopia, Use, and the Everyday: OscarWilde and a New Economy of Pleasure 181
13. Conclusion 205
14. Notes 215
15. Bibliography 251
16. Index 263