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Working Fictions
A Genealogy of the Victorian Novel
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Carolyn Lesjak
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Edited by:
Stanley Fish
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2006
About this book
Reconceptualizing Victorian literary history, Carolyn Lesjak argues that throughout the Victorian era, fiction reflected a preoccupation with labor in relation to pleasure.
Author / Editor information
Carolyn Lesjak is Associate Professor of English at Swarthmore College.
Reviews
“Working Fictions compellingly reconfigures the literary history of the nineteenth century by exploring the complex ways in which concepts of labor and pleasure informed the realist novel and Victorian aestheticism. This is a rich renewal of Frankfurt School concerns and a powerful contribution to contemporary literary studies.”—Amanda Anderson, author of The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory
“Working Fictions is a groundbreaking book on Victorian literature and culture. Carolyn Lesjak reads nineteenth-century novels together with the best of social historical and Marxist criticism to reveal how the novel separated labor from pleasure and, in doing so, changed the very definition of both. Hers is an argument whose time has come, one that will enable a new generation of work to be done.”—Nancy Armstrong, author of Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel
“[Lesjak] has without doubt developed sophisticated analytical instruments for making the labor/pleasure problematic visible in a wide range of Victorian fiction, and her book will certainly reinvigorate scholarly attention to this tremendously important topic.”
-- John Kucich Victorian Studies
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PART I Realism Meets the Masses
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PART II Coming of Age in a World Economy
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January 18, 2007
eBook ISBN:
9780822388340
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