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: | Elektronisch E-Book |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan UK,
2018.
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed. 2018. |
| Schriftenreihe: | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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| ISBN: | 9781137552532 |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.