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

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.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Social Work of Unproductive Labor2. Silas Marner: Narration as Work-Discipline3. Our Mutual Friend: Service Work as Subject-Work4. The Moonstone: Service Work as Narrative Work5. The Way We Live Now: Service Work and ViolenceConclusion, Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love My Work-DisciplineBibliographyIndex