The Rise of the Office Clerk in Literary Culture, 1880-1939

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Leonard Bast's Revenge 'Getting On'?: The Clerk's Emergence in Literature 1880-1900 'The Decently Ignoble - or, the Ignobly Decent?': George Gissing's Fictional Clerks The Day of Inconceivably Small Things: The Clerk in Comic Literature 1888-1900 Degeneration in the Edwardian Office The Friends and Patrons of Leonard Bast: Liberal Anxiety and the Edwardian Clerk 'A Merciful Heaven-Sent Release'?: The Clerk and the First World War The Black-Coated Worker and the Great Depression in 1930s Literature Afterword Notes Bibliography Index