| Descript |
1 online resource (xv, 268 pages) : illustrations, digital ; 24 cm |
|
text txt rdacontent |
|
computer c rdamedia |
|
online resource cr rdacarrier |
|
text file PDF rda |
| Series |
Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture |
|
Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
|
| Note |
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 Bruyere, 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 |
| Host Item |
Springer eBooks
|
| Subject |
Working class in literature
|
|
English literature -- History and criticism
|
|
Working class writings, English -- History and criticism
|
|
Working class -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life
|
|
Working class -- France -- Intellectual life
|
|
Working class -- France -- History
|
|
Working class -- Great Britain -- History
|
|
Literature
|
|
Nineteenth-Century Literature
|
|
British and Irish Literature
|
|
European Literature
|
|
Fiction
|
|
Literary History
|
| Alt Author |
Waithe, Marcus, editor
|
|
White, Claire, editor
|
|
SpringerLink (Online service)
|
|
