Title Literature in the public service : sublime bureaucracy / Ceri Sullivan

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 218 pages) Contents Introduction: Weber, Bureaucracy, and Creativity -- The 1650s: Milton and the Beginning of Civil Service -- The 1850s: Trollope and the Height of Civil Service Ambitions -- The Present: Hare and Shrinking Government Provision -- Coda: Bureaucratic Creativity Summary "Historians and sociologists have been consistently - albeit gloomily - enthralled by Max Weber's model of the inevitable rise of the neurocrat. However, literary critics positively boast that writers, like academics, cannot 'do admin'. While Weber's thesis about the rise of the entrepreneur - all fire, individuality, thrust - is in tune with what we think literature is about, his thesis about the rise of the bureaucrat is not, yet 'creative bureaucracy' is not only a euphemism for bending the rules. Literature in the Public Service shows how the public service makes its workers original, taking them beyond an individuated point of view to imagine the perfect public system. Creativity theorists too have swapped the model of solitary inspiration for a managed creative environment. John Milton, Anthony Trollope, and David Hare are examples of how authors work in and write about the public service, during its crisis moments"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Criticism and interpretation Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 -- Criticism and interpretation Hare, David, 1947- -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Hare, David, 1947- fast Milton, John, 1608-1674 fast Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 fast Subject Bureaucracy in literature. English literature -- History and criticism. Civil service in literature. Literature and civil service. Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Literary studies: general -- English. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Literature. Bureaucracy in literature Civil service in literature Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) English literature Literature and civil service Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781137287427 113728742X

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