{"product_id":"9783319876740","title":"Precarious Labour and the Contemporary Novel","description":"This book is a major study of the presentation of work and workers in contemporary novels from India, North America and the UK. Drawing on lively recent theories about work, it shows how the novel is a crucial form for helping us to understand what work means in contemporary society. It tackles some of the most urgent questions of contemporary life by examining the stories about work that novels produce. Including detailed readings of authors such as Douglas Coupland, David Foster Wallace, Joshua Ferris, Arivand Adiga, Chetan Bhagat and Monica Ali it explores how the presentation of fictional characters lays open the experience of insecure and precarious existence in the contemporary era. This study illustrates that novels provide an essential tool for understanding what work is and how we feel when we do it.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction.- 2 Reading Coupland Backwards: Time, Generationality and Work in \u003ci\u003eGeneration X, Microserfs \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eJPod.- 3 \u003c\/i\u003ePrecarity and Subjective Life: Matt Thorne's \u003ci\u003eEight Minutes Idle\u003c\/i\u003e and David Szalay's \u003ci\u003eLondon and the South East.- 4 \u003c\/i\u003eDying to Work: American Nationalism and the End of Productive Labour.- 5 Working Women and the Welfare State: Jenny Turner's \u003ci\u003eThe Brainstorm.- 6 Conclusion.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Liam Connell is Senior Lecturer English Literature at the University of Brighton. He is the director of Brighton's C21 Research group. He has written widely on contemporary literature and the questions globalization and transnationalism. He is the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eGlobalization and Literature: A Reader \u003c\/i\u003e(2010).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer International Publishing AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45543791460431,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/en\/products\/9783319876740","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}