Working Fictions takes as its point of departure the common and painful truth that the vast majority of human beings toil for a wage and rarely for their own en

What makes a story a story? What is style? What’s the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in How Fict

Reconceptualizing Victorian literary history, Carolyn Lesjak argues that throughout the Victorian era, fiction reflected a preoccupation with labor in relation

Many recent discussions of working-class culture in literary and cultural studies have tended to present an oversimplified view of resistance. In this groundbre

In this book, Mary Talbot shows how fiction works in the constitution and reproduction of social life. She discusses both `high' and `low' fiction, combining di