| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 344 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Efficiency and the Great Exhibition of 1851 : elation and doubt -- Efficient machines and docile bodies : Henry Ford and F.W. Taylor -- An experiment in (in)efficient organization and social engineering : Auschwitz -- Efficiency and disciplinary power : the iron cage and the suburb -- Efficiency and population control : Wells, Shaw, Orwell, Forster -- "Criminal" efficiency : Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness -- Efficient management : D.H. Lawrence's Women in love -- Efficiency and perverse outcomes : Ford Madox Ford's The good soldier -- Efficiency and its alternatives : E.M. Forster's Howards end -- Efficiency and the perfect society : Aldous Huxley's Brave new world. |
| Summary |
Cobley's close readings of modernist British fiction by writers as diverse as Aldous Huxley, Joseph Conrad, and E.M. Forster identify characters whose attitudes and behaviour patterns indirectly manifest cultural anxieties that can be traced to the conflicted logic of efficiency. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Modernism (Literature)
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Modernism (Literature) |
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Industrial efficiency -- Social aspects.
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Industrial efficiency -- Social aspects. |
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Industrial efficiency. |
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Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
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Technological innovations -- Social aspects. |
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English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Technology in literature.
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Technology in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cobley, Evelyn. Modernism and the culture of efficiency. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2009 9780802099570 (DLC) 2009281504 (OCoLC)319932289 |
| ISBN |
9781442697430 (electronic book) |
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1442697431 (electronic book) |
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9780802099570 (bound) |
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