Modernism and the culture of efficiency : ideology and fiction / Evelyn Cobley.
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TextPublication details: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 344 pages)Content type: - text
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- Modernism (Literature)
- Industrial efficiency -- Social aspects
- Technological innovations -- Social aspects
- English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Technology in literature
- Modernisme (Littérature)
- Efficience dans l'industrie -- Aspect social
- Innovations -- Aspect social
- Roman anglais -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Technologie dans la littérature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
- English fiction
- Industrial efficiency -- Social aspects
- Modernism (Literature)
- Technological innovations -- Social aspects
- Technology in literature
- 1900-1999
- 306.4/6
- PN56.M54 C63 2009eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
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