... Russell Hochschild calls “emotional labor,” the act of performing an inauthentic feeling publicly for money. Like modern caregivers, Lucy Snowe expresses a sense of invisibility and stress over her cultural alterity. When Madame Beck's surveillance forces Lucy to enact her teacherly persona constantly...

... and quantifiable information that drives this form of warfare. In the third chapter, one of the most fascinating, Rhee explores social robots and emotional labor as another aspect of devalued reproductive labor and its ties to the military. In the 1990s, with new research on the importance of emotions...

... leave me, Nell, say that thou'lt not leave me” (175). Even before their expulsion from the curiosity shop, the girl works hard to take care of her grandfather's needs while sacrificing her own. He defends her physical and emotional labor to Master Humphrey, the novel's first narrator and Nell's...

... Emotion has spawned a variety of compound words, including emotionale Kompetenz (emotional competence), emotionale Intelligenz (emotional intelligence), Emotionsbildung (emotional literacy), Emotionsregulation (emotional regulation), and Emotionsarbeit (emotional labor). When the word Emotion...

... . London : Verso , 2013 . xi – xlvi . Schaffer Talia . Romance’s Rival: Familiar Marriage in Victorian Fiction . New York : Oxford UP , 2016 . Schaffer Talia . “ Why Lucy Doesn’t Care: Migration and Emotional Labor in Villette. ” Novel 52 . 1 ( 2019 ): 84 – 106...

... Smith and William Godwin, an indicator of a healthy social body, but rather an indicator of its coming demise. "Somaeconomics" "describe[s] the theorization of economic behavior in terms of the emotional and sensual feelings that are both causes and consequences of economic exer- tions" (3...

...,” as Eliot describes it, of life in St. Ogg’s generates emotional and cognitive limitations for its central character, Maggie Tulliver; it circumscribes her aspirations, imagination, ideas, and desires (363). After several hundred pages in which Maggie suffers, culminating in the loss of her reputation...

... is an increasing reliance on time as an important—if not the important—lever in the negotiations between capitalist and laborer in the nineteenth century. According to Bounderby, the working classes cannot know the value of time because it requires the expertise of the capitalist to interpret. Sue Zemka’s...

... claims regarding the role of the stock market in the vicariation of male middle-class subjectivity in the mid-nineteenth century. According to her, rather than unified or autonomous, natural or innate, the Victorians conceived of both identity and the emotions as generated through and in relation...

... aesthetic as a form of social labor whose capitalized temporality is brought into focus and arrested by the form of the novel itself. By offering the self-managerial aesthetic as an object of thought, the novel opens it to the dynamics of intellectual reproduction and continued critical thinking. © 2009...

...: Macmillan, 1993 . Lai , Walton Looki . Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838–1918 . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1993 . Laurence , K.O. A Question of Labor: Indentured Immigration into Trinidad and British Guiana, 1875–1917...

..., as Waikowitz suggests-and this proposition carries over to Alexander Bain's notion of "humanitarian crisis fiction," to Bruce Robbins's reading of Never Let Me Go as a "welfare state fiction," and to my own reading of Ishiguro's later works as fic- tions of immaterial labor and class consciousness...

...-Romantic misunderstanding of vocal performance, whether speech or song, as unmediated expression that taps into feeling and that is therefore subject to nothing more than the waxing and waning of a given artist's emotions. One main consequence of this view is that the specific labor involved in vocal...

...: The Story of Sharecroppers in the New Deal . Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1965 . Delbanco , Andrew . The Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1995 . Denning , Michael . The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture...

.... In nominating a new Mrs. Bundren so pre- cipitously on the heels of the old, Anse flouts not only the decorum of mourning rituals and the emotional well-being of his offspring, but also conventions of lin- guistic usage, wrenching the appellation from its accustomed denotation without warning or fanfare...

.... Snell. New York: Cambridge UP, 1998 . 54 -77. Berlant , Lauren . The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1991 . ———. “Introduction: Compassion (and Withholding).” Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion . Ed...

... the backdrop to many stories, others concern stillborn or miscarried fetuses, unwanted pregnancies, and mothers who die either in childbirth or due to other hardship. For instance, Lamort, the name of the protagonist in ‘‘The Missing Peace commemorates the loss of her mother in labor (109), whereas...

... to is the indispensable labor disgust once carried out on behalf of the modern educational system, when schools were at best only partially administered. By thinking through the emotional possibilities of the school, Norris's novel discovers the boundary where classroom-appropriate feelings give way to classroom...

... of a resignation from a masculine political sphere, not only trapping femininity in a gendered division of moral labor but also neutralizing politics into mere psychological conditions, such that the disciplinary cultivation of the self comes to look like both the means and ends of actual political work, and women...

..., such as knowledge, information, commu- nication, a relationship, or an emotional response" (108). An "immaterial good" is thus a "service, a cultural product, knowledge, or communication" (Empire 290). Furthermore, "immaterial labor has become hegemonic in qualitative terms and has imposed a tendency...