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Author Cobley, Evelyn.
Title Modernism and the culture of efficiency : ideology and fiction / Evelyn Cobley.
Publication Info Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2009.


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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.
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ISBN 9781442697430 (electronic bk.)
1442697431 (electronic bk.)
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Author Cobley, Evelyn.
Subject Modernism (Literature)
Industrial efficiency -- Social aspects.
Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Technology in literature.
Descript 1 online resource (viii, 344 pages)
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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.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781442697430 (electronic bk.)
1442697431 (electronic bk.)
Author Cobley, Evelyn.
Subject Modernism (Literature)
Industrial efficiency -- Social aspects.
Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Technology in literature.

Subject Modernism (Literature)
Industrial efficiency -- Social aspects.
Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Technology in literature.
Descript 1 online resource (viii, 344 pages)
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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.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781442697430 (electronic bk.)
1442697431 (electronic bk.)
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