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Fictions of Management
Efficiency and Control in American Literature and Culture
Herausgeber: Dorson, James | Verlinden, Jasper J.
American Studies – A Monograph Series, Bd. 289
2019
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Abstract
From the organization of private businesses and public services to the optimization of everyday life, management is a ubiquitous term today. Denoting efficiency and control, management has become a catchall term for successful living in neoliberal times. The term is so ubiquitous that it often avoids scrutiny outside of business schools and organizational theory. As the essays collected in ‘Fictions of Management’ show, however, management has a history closely bound up with cultural practices. While the meaning of management has been critically negotiated in literature since the industrial revolution, management theory in turn draws on cultural resources for animating technical rationality with engaging stories and corporate visions. Tracing the relationship between management and fiction in the United States, where the mutual influence between the two has been the greatest and shaped management culture globally, the contributors to this volume provide a unique perspective on changing forms of management through the lens of American literature and culture.
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| Zwischenüberschrift | Seite | Aktion | Preis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Titel | 3 | ||
| Imprint | 4 | ||
| Contents | 5 | ||
| JAMES DORSON AND JASPER J. VERLINDEN: Introduction: Management, Culture, Society | 7 | ||
| PHILIPP REISNER: Pietist Self-Management in the Eighteenth Century: From Individual Reform to the Social Marketplace | 31 | ||
| SCOTT HENKEL: The Critique of Proslavery Ideology in David Walker’s Appeal | 53 | ||
| KRISTINA GRAAFF AND MARTIN KLEPPER: Self-Help and/in Mass Cultures: Performatives of (Self-)Management and Race between 1890 and 1930 | 73 | ||
| KATHARINA METZ: Managing “The City Wilderness”: Late Nineteenth-Century Settlement Fiction | 101 | ||
| CAROLIN BENACK: Romancing Finance: “Animal Spirits” in John Maynard Keynes, Neoclassical Economics, and Frank Norris’s „The Pit“ | 121 | ||
| BEN NICHOLS: Reproduction Lines: Feminism, Management, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman | 141 | ||
| JAMES DORSON: Flow Management: Jack London and Efficient Living in the Progressive Era | 163 | ||
| SIMONE KNEWITZ: Life on the Collar Line: Discontent, Nostalgia, and the Professional-Managerial Class in 1950s Fiction | 189 | ||
| NICOLA GLAUBITZ: Edgy Time, Empty Time, and Time Management in David Foster Wallace’s „Infinite Jest“ and „The Pale King“ | 213 | ||
| BIRTE WEGE: The Dinosaur in the Room: Bringing the ENRON Scandal to the Stage | 235 | ||
| RIEKE JORDAN: Macintosh HD > User > Documents > Melodrama > PowerPoint > Jennifer Egan.pptx | 255 | ||
| DAVID HADAR: Can a Writer Critique Uber? The Gig Economy, Creative Labor, and Ben Lerner’s “The Polish Rider” | 277 | ||
| CONTRIBUTORS | 297 | ||
| Backcover | 302 |
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