TY - BOOK AU - Lesjak,Carolyn ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Working fictions: a genealogy of the Victorian novel T2 - Post-contemporary interventions SN - 9780822388340 AV - PR871 .L47 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - Durham PB - Duke University Press KW - English fiction KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Authors, English KW - Political and social views KW - Working class in literature KW - Work in literature KW - Pleasure in literature KW - Social conflict in literature KW - Economics in literature KW - Capitalism in literature KW - Industrialization in literature KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-261) and index; Introduction: A Genealogy of the Labor Novel -- Part I: Realism Meets the Masses -- 1. "How Deep Might Be the Romance": Representing Work and the Working Class in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton -- 2. A Modern Odyssey: Felix Holt's Education for the Masses -- Part II: Coming of Age in a World Economy -- 3. Seeing the Invisible: The Bildungsroman and the Narration of a New Regime of Accumulation -- Part III: Itineraries of the Utopian -- 4. William Morris and a People's Art: Imagining the Pleasures of Labor -- 5. Utopia, Use, and the Everyday: Oscar Wilde and a New Economy of Pleasure -- Conclusion UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kuct-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1169361 ER -