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The Victorian Novel, Service Work, and the Nineteenth-Century Economy

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  • © 2015

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  1. Joshua Gooch

    1. D’Youville College, USA

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Joshua Gooch
    Pages 1-27

  3. The Social Work of Unproductive Labor

    • Joshua Gooch
    Pages 28-57

  4. Silas Marner: Narration as Work-Discipline

    • Joshua Gooch
    Pages 58-80

  5. Our Mutual Friend: Service Work as Subject-Work

    • Joshua Gooch
    Pages 81-108

  6. The Moonstone: Service Work as Narrative Work

    • Joshua Gooch
    Pages 109-138

  7. The Way We Live Now: Service Work and Violence

    • Joshua Gooch
    Pages 139-162

  8. Conclusion, Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love My Work-Discipline

    • Joshua Gooch
    Pages 163-184

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 185-233
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This book offers a much-needed study of the Victorian novel's role in representing and shaping the service sector's emergence. Arguing that prior accounts of the novel's relation to the rise of finance have missed the emergence of a wider service sector, it traces the effects of service work's many forms and class positions in the Victorian novel.

Authors and Affiliations

  • D’Youville College, USA

    Joshua Gooch

About the author

Joshua Gooch is an Assistant Professor at D'Youville College in Buffalo, New York. His research focuses on intersections of work, power, and aesthetics in literature and film, particularly in relation to cultures with financialized economies, and includes essays on Samuel Butler, Joseph Conrad, Wes Anderson, and war films.

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