Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Philosophies of labour and selfhood; 2. Technologies of labour: washing and typing; 3. Sylvia Pankhurst: labour and representation; 4. D. H. Lawrence: labour, organicism, and the individual; 5. The general strike: labour and the future tense; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930.
Morag Shiach is Vice-Principal (Teaching and Learning) at Queen Mary, University of London, where she is also professor of Cultural History in the School of English and Drama. Her most recent books are Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930 (Cambridge, 2004) and (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel (Cambridge, 2007). She has published a wide range of articles on aspects of modernism, including language reform, domestic interiors and philosophies of history. She edited Feminism and Cultural Studies (1999) and has published widely on the French novelist, essayist and playwright Helene Cixous.
'A beautifully written and finely argued book, a work of impressive scholarship and persuasive local insight.' Times Literary Supplement 'This study will interest scholars across several disciplines ... documents the variety and complexity encompassed by its theme, and avoids coercing the material into an overall interpretation.' MLR
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