The Work of Words : Literature, Craft, and the Labour of Mind in Britain, 1830–1940
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| Title: | The Work of Words : Literature, Craft, and the Labour of Mind in Britain, 1830–1940 |
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| Description: | Rather than focus on the well-known ‘dignity of literature'debate, whereby authors such as Dickens sought to establish authorship as a middle-class profession, The Work of Words considers the alternative path of middle-class writers who re-presented literature as a manual craft. Unlike many works in the field, it extends beyond the mid-Victorian novel as a generic and historical focus, to address its aesthetic and political afterlife right up to the periods of Guild Socialism, modernism and European fascism. Given the tilt of world trade towards China, and more recent supply chain shocks, it is not just writers who are haunted by a lost world of material production, but much of the de-industrialised West. By studying the Victorian attempt to make composition (and related mental processes) palpable, this book takes the long view on questions that still trouble us, and responds to recent concerns, whether as manifested through the revival of craft and workshop culture, or debates about the visibility, weight and worth of the humanities. |
| Authors: | Marcus Waithe |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Authors, English--20th century, Authors, English--19th century, Work--History--20th century, Work in literature, English literature--20th century--History and criticism, English literature--19th century--History and criticism, Work--History--19th century, Authorship--History--19th century, Authorship--History--20th century |
| Categories: | LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
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