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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Waithe, Marcus (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), White, Claire (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-19th century.; British literature.; European literature.; Fiction.; Literature-History and criticism.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; British and Irish Literature.; European Literature.; Literary History.

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 pre...