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Literature in the public service = sublime bureaucracy /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Literature in the public service/ Ceri Sullivan.
Reminder of title:	sublime bureaucracy /
Author:	Sullivan, Ceri,
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan, : 2013.,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	Bureaucracy in literature. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137287427
ISBN:	9781137287427 (electronic bk.)

Literature in the public service = sublime bureaucracy /
Sullivan, Ceri,1963-

Literature in the public servicesublime bureaucracy /[electronic resource] :Ceri Sullivan. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan,2013. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Weber, Bureaucracy, and Creativity -- Weber and the Office -- Creative Bureaucracy -- The 1650s: Milton and the Beginning of Civil Service -- The Commonwealth's Public Service -- From Personal Servant to Public Servant -- Milton as Latin Secretary -- Hell, Heaven, and the Ideal Bureaucracy -- The 1850s: Trollope and the Height of Civil Service Ambitions -- Impetus for Reform -- A Literary Civil Service -- Combining Writing and Civil Service -- Novelists are also Public Servants -- Trollope Writes about Civil Service -- The Present: Hare and Shrinking Government Provision -- New Public Management -- National Theatre -- Service to or by the People? -- Hare's Plays on Public Services -- Coda: Bureaucratic Creativity --.

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.

ISBN: 9781137287427 (electronic bk.)

Source: 645571Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Personal Names:

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Milton, John,
1608-1674--Criticism and interpretation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Bureaucracy in literature.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR149.B85 / S85 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/353

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