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The Labour of Literature in Britain and France, 1830-1910 :

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1137552530

(Number (ISBN

9781137552532

Erroneous ISBN

9781137552525

Title Proper

The Labour of Literature in Britain and France, 1830-1910 :

General Material Designation

[Book]

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Authorial Work Ethics /

First Statement of Responsibility

Marcus Waith, Claire White, editors.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

London :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Palgrave Macmillan,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2018.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource

Series Title

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture

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Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Literature and Labour; Works Cited; Part I: Labour and the Ethics of Representation; Preface; '[A] common and not a divided interest': Literature and the Labour of Representation; The Politics of Literary Labour; Figures of Mental Labour in Eliot's Fiction; Re-Imagining the Constitution: Labour and Representation; Works Cited; The Literature of Labour: Collective Biography and Working-Class Authorship, 1830-1859; Works Cited; George Sand, Digging; Works Cited; Part II: Material Labour, Metaphorical Work; Preface

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Ruskin, Browning/Alpenstock, HatchetWorks Cited; Flaubert's Cailloux: Hard Labour and the Beauty of Stones; Works Cited; Marian Evans, George Eliot, and the Work of Sententiousness; Works Cited; Part III: Work Ethics and Aesthetics; Preface; Baudelaire and the Dilettante Work Ethic; Works Cited; 'Strenuous Minds': Walter Pater and the Labour of Aestheticism; Works Cited; The Work of Imitation: Decadent Writing as Mimetic Labour; Works Cited; Part IV: Working Conditions; Preface; Literary Machines: George Gissing's Lost Illusions; Works Cited; Worlds of Work and the Work of Words: Zola

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Time-LinesClock-Work; Habits and Habitat; Works Cited; Gender Difference and Cultural Labour in French Fiction from Zola to Colette; Works Cited; Coda: Immaterial Labour and the Modernist Work of Literature; 'Immaterial Labour' and Modernist Literary Writing; Duchamp/Beckett/Proust; Works Cited; Epilogue: Work Ethics, Past and Present; Works Cited; Index

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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 previous studies have focused on national literatures in isolation, this volume demonstrates the two-way traffic between British and French conceptions of literary labour. It questions assumed areas of affinity and difference, beginning with the labour politics of the early nineteenth century and their common root in the French Revolution. It also scrutinises the received view of France as a source of a 'leisure ethic', and of British writers as either rejecting or self-consciously mimicking French models. Individual essays consider examples of how different writers approached their work, while also evoking a broader notion of 'work ethics', understood as a humane practice, whereby values, benefits, and responsibilities, are weighed up.

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Springer Nature

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com.springer.onix.9781137552532

International Standard Book Number

9781137552525

English literature-- History and criticism.

Working class-- France-- History.

Working class-- France-- Intellectual life.

Working class-- Great Britain-- History.

Working class-- Great Britain-- Intellectual life.

Working class in literature.

Working class writings, English-- History and criticism.

19th century, c 1800 to c 1899.

c 1900 to c 1909.

English literature.

English.

Europe.

Fiction & related items.

Fiction: general & literary.

France.

French.

Ireland.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.

Literature.

Literature: history & criticism.

United Kingdom, Great Britain.

Working class in literature.

Working class-- Intellectual life.

Working class writings, English.

Working class.

France.

Great Britain.

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LIT-- 004120

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Edition

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Waithe, Marcus

White, Claire.

Date of Transaction

20200822155833.0

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