The Victorian Novel, Service Work, and the by Joshua Gooch

By Joshua Gooch

This booklet deals a much-needed examine of the Victorian novel's function in representing and shaping the carrier sector's emergence. Arguing that earlier bills of the novel's relation to the increase of finance have ignored the emergence of a much broader carrier zone, it lines the results of carrier work's many varieties and sophistication positions within the Victorian novel.

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