The Labour of Literature in Britain and France, 1830-1910 : Authorial Work Ethics / Marcus Waith, Claire White, editors.
Waithe, Marcus, editor.; White, Claire.
2018
PR120.L33
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Title The Labour of Literature in Britain and France, 1830-1910 : Authorial Work Ethics / Marcus Waith, Claire White, editors.
ISBN 9781137552532 (electronic book)
1137552530 (electronic book)
9781137552525
Published London : Springer Science and Business Media : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Call Number PR120.L33
Dewey Decimal Classification 820.93520623
Summary 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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Added Author Waithe, Marcus, editor.
White, Claire.
Series 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

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

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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