TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cobley,Evelyn
TI  - Modernism and the culture of efficiency: ideology and fiction 
SN  - 9781442697430
AV  - PN56 .M634 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Toronto [Ont.
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
KW  - Industrial efficiency
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - English fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Technology in literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - Cobley's close readings of modernist British fiction by writers as diverse as Aldous Huxley, Joseph Conrad, and E.M. Forster identify characters whose attitudes and behaviour patterns indirectly manifest cultural anxieties that can be traced to the conflicted logic of efficiency
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