The Labour of Literature in Britain and France, 1830-1910 Authorial Work Ethics /

This volume examines the anxieties that caused many nineteenth-century writers to insist on literature as a laboured and labouring enterprise. Following Isaac D'Israeli's gloss on Jean de La Bruyère, it asks, in particular, whether writing should be 'called working'. Whereas prev...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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ISBN:9781137552532
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505 0 |a 1. Introduction: Literature and Labour - Marcus Waithe and Claire White -- 2. '[A] common and not a divided interest': Literature and the Labour of Representation - Jan-Melissa Schramm -- 3. Collective Biography and Working-Class Authorship, 1830-1859- Richard Salmon -- 4. George Sand, Digging - Claire White -- 5. Ruskin, Browning / Alpenstock, Hatchet - Ross Wilson -- 6. Flaubert's Cailloux: Hard Labour and the Beauty of Stones - Patrick M. Bray -- 7. Marian Evans, George Eliot, and the Work of Sententiousness - Ruth Livesey -- 8. Baudelaire and the Dilettante Work Ethic - Richard Hibbitt -- 9. 'Strenuous Minds': Walter Pater and the Labour of Aestheticism - Marcus Waithe -- 10. The Work of Imitation: Decadent Writing as Mimetic Labour - Matthew Potolksy -- 11. Literary Machines: George Gissing's Lost Illusions - Edmund Birch -- 12. Worlds of Work and the Work of Words: Zola: Susan Harrow -- 13. Gender Difference and Cultural Labour in French Fiction from Zola to Colette: Nicholas White -- 14. Immaterial Labour and the Modernist Work of Literature - Morag Shiach -- 15. Epilogue: Work Ethics, Past and Present - Marcus Waithe and Claire White. 
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