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Connell, Liam.

Precarious labour and the contemporary novel

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Precarious labour and the contemporary novelby Liam Connell.
Author:	Connell, Liam.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017.
Description:	x, 246 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Work in literature.
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63928-4
ISBN:	9783319639284$q(electronic bk.)

Precarious labour and the contemporary novel
Connell, Liam.

Precarious labour and the contemporary novel[electronic resource] /by Liam Connell. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017. - x, 246 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

1 Introduction -- 2 Reading Coupland Backwards: Time, Generationality and Work in Generation X, Microserfs and JPod -- 3 Precarity and Subjective Life: Matt Thorne's Eight Minutes Idle and David Szalay's London and the South East -- 4 Dying to Work: American Nationalism and the End of Productive Labour -- 5 Working Women and the Welfare State: Jenny Turner's The Brainstorm -- 6 Conclusion.

This book is a major study of the presentation of work and workers in contemporary novels from India, North America and the UK. Drawing on lively recent theories about work, it shows how the novel is a crucial form for helping us to understand what work means in contemporary society. It tackles some of the most urgent questions of contemporary life by examining the stories about work that novels produce. Including detailed readings of authors such as Douglas Coupland, David Foster Wallace, Joshua Ferris, Arivand Adiga, Chetan Bhagat and Monica Ali it explores how the presentation of fictional characters lays open the experience of insecure and precarious existence in the contemporary era. This study illustrates that novels provide an essential tool for understanding what work is and how we feel when we do it.

ISBN: 9783319639284$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-63928-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

300549
Work in literature.

LC Class. No.: PN56.L22 / C65 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 809.93355

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