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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Labour of Literature in Britain and France, 1830-1910
    sub title: Authorial Work Ethics
  name:
    name part: Waithe, Marcus.
    role:
      role term: editor.
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  name:
    name part: White, Claire.
    role:
      role term: editor.
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      role term: edt
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxk
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 268 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: edited by Marcus Waithe, Claire White.
  subject:
    topic: Literature, Modern-19th century
  subject:
    topic: British literature
  subject:
    topic: European literature
  subject:
    topic: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Literature-History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Nineteenth-Century Literature
  subject:
    topic: British and Irish Literature
  subject:
    topic: European Literature
  subject:
    topic: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Literary History
  classification: PN760.5-769
  classification: 809.034
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
  identifier: 9781137552532
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55253-2
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    record creation date: 180420
    record change date: 20191220131154.0
    record identifier: 978-1-137-55253-2