Working Fictions: A Genealogy of the Victorian Novel by Carolyn Lesjak
By Carolyn Lesjak
Lesjak demonstrates how the ideological paintings of the literature of the Victorian period, the “golden age of the novel,” revolved round setting apart the domain names of work and enjoyment and emphasizing the latter because the right realm of literary illustration. She unearths how the utopian works of Morris and Wilde grapple with this divide and try to think new relationships among paintings and delight, relationships that may let a destiny during which paintings isn't the antithesis of delight. In Working Fictions, Lesjak argues for the modern relevance of the “labor novel,” suggesting that inside of its pages lie assets with which to confront the gulf among paintings and delight that keeps to signify our international today.
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