. >> next vanderbilt university professor sarah igal talks about the societal shift in the earlier 20th century at modernization talked about the household. i focus on the literary works on frederick on home economics and frederick taylor who saw to improve industrial efficiency. this class is about an hour and 20 minutes. >> all right. great. hello everybody. today as you know we're going to take up the topic engineering, work and the person. and i put up on a slide here, the cover, one of the many covers of theodore's novel, sister carrie which we've been discussing this last week. and what we been considering is a kind of fictional assault right? on the victorian moral order. in this case and theodore's case, in the form of naturalist fiction. naturalist writing. the attempt to get close to urban reality and to record it in the form of a story about a female adventurer. she chose to set this story as you know in the booming bustling town of chicago. and to use chicago as a kind of character in the story. so look at the booms, the bus the individual tremendous vails, the fortunes of t

. >> next vanderbilt university professor sarah igal talks about the societal shift in the earlier 20thury at modernization talked about the household. i focus on the literary works on frederick on home economics and frederick taylor who saw to improve industrial efficiency. this class is about an hour and 20 minutes. >> all right. great. hello everybody. today as you know we're going to take up the topic engineering, work and the person. and i put up on a slide here, the cover, one of the many covers of theodore's novel, sister carrie which we've been discussing this last week. and what we been considering is a kind of fictional assault right? on the victorian moral order. in this case and theodore's case, in the form of naturalist fiction. naturalist writing. the attempt to get close to urban reality and to record it in the form of a story about a female adventurer. she chose to set this story as you know in the booming bustling town of chicago. and to use chicago as a kind of character in the story. so look at the booms, the bus the individual tremendous vails, the fortunes of the ch