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The Work of Words
- Literature, Craft, and the Labour of Mind in Britain, 18301940
Engelsk Paperback
The Work of Words
- Literature, Craft, and the Labour of Mind in Britain, 18301940
Engelsk Paperback

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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.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
320
ISBN-13:
9781399512305
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1399512307
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Udg. Dato:
30 nov 2024
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
156mm
Højde:
234mm
Forlag:
Edinburgh University Press
Oplagsdato:
30 nov 2024
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