The work of words : literature, craft, and the labour of mind in Britain, 1830-1940 / Marcus Waithe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waithe, Marcus, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Work--History--19th century.

Work.

Work--History--20th century.

Authorship--History--19th century.

Authorship.

Authorship--History--20th century.

Authors, English--19th century.

Authors, English.

Authors, English--20th century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 307 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

Part I Anxious Vocations

Chapter 1 Carlyle’s ‘Author-Craft’

Chapter 2 Ford Madox Brown Among the Brain-Workers

Part II Writers at Work

Chapter 3 Barrett Browning’s Poetic Vocation

Chapter 4 Participant Observers: Gladstone, Ruskin, Morris

Part III Craft Consciousness

Chapter 5 Songs of the Forge

Chapter 6 Modernism and the Maker

Conclusion: Writing as Working

Notes

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 28, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Waithe, Marcus The Work of Words

ISBN:

1-3995-1232-3

1-3995-1231-5

OCLC:

1352969237