Jenkin-Smith, Daniel
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"Romantics, satirists, journalists, novelists, feminists, radicals, conservatives, Naturalists and Decadents: a whole slew of French and British write
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rs from across the 19th century were obsessed with offices. A cloistered world of mind-numbing, repetitive labour, the office was also, somehow, a key component of emergent modern society - a contradiction that enthralled and confounded readers, writers and office workers alike. This book explores the changing portrayal of office life as the history of a 'forgotten genre', asserting that 'office literature' is an essential tool for understanding the interrelation of aesthetic, social, technological, and ideological change across 19th century"--
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