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

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

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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.

Keywords

Business & EconomicsEconomic HistoryLiterary CriticismModern19th CenturyFictionEuropean

2015Book

Author(s)Joshua Gooch

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK

ISBN9781137525505

LanguageEnglish

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