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...

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.