Modernism and the Culture of Efficiency : : Ideology and Fiction / / Evelyn Cobley.
Modernism and the Culture of Efficiency engages with the idea of efficiency as it emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century. Evelyn Cobley's close readings of modernist British fiction by writers as diverse as Aldous Huxley, Joseph Conrad, and E.M. Forster identify characters whose atti...
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2009 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART ONE. The Culture of Efficiency in Society
- 1. Efficiency and the Great Exhibition of 1851: Elation and Doubt
- 2. Efficient Machines and Docile Bodies: Henry Ford and F.W. Taylor
- 3. An Experiment in (In)Efficient Organization and Social Engineering: Auschwitz
- 4. Efficiency and Disciplinary Power: The Iron Cage and the Suburb
- PART TWO. The Culture of Efficiency in Fiction
- 5. Efficiency and Population Control: Wells, Shaw, Orwell, Forster
- 6. 'Criminal' Efficiency: Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
- 7. Efficient Management: D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love
- 8. Efficiency and Perverse Outcomes: Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier
- 9. Efficiency and Its Alternatives: E.M. Forster's Howards End
- 10. Efficiency and the Perfect Society: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index