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Working Fictions: A Genealogy of the Victorian Novel

Working Fictions: A Genealogy of the Victorian Novel

Lesjak, Carolyn

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Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions

Literary CriticismPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 0822338882
ISBN13: 9780822338888
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jan 18 2007
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Working Fictions takes as its point of departure the common and painful truth that the vast majority of human beings toil for a wage and rarely for their own enjoyment or satisfaction. In this striking reconceptualization of Victorian literary history, Carolyn Lesjak interrogates the relationship between labor and pleasure, two concepts that were central to the Victorian imagination and the literary output of the era. Through the creation of a new genealogy of the labor novel, Lesjak challenges the prevailing assumption about the portrayal of work in Victorian fiction, namely that it disappears with the fall from prominence of the industrial novel. She proposes that the problematic of labor persists throughout the nineteenth century and continues to animate texts as diverse as Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton, George Eliot's Felix Holt and Daniel Deronda, Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, and the essays and literary work of William Morris and Oscar Wilde.

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