Work and Leisure in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Visual Culture - Time, Politics and Class

In this engaging new study, Claire White reveals how representations of work and leisure became the vehicle for anxieties and fantasies about class and alienation, affecting, in turn, the ways in which writers and artists understood their own cultural work.

Table des matières

List of Illustrations Prefatory Note Series Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Workers at Play in Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart 2. Dominical Diversions: Laforgue on Sundays 3. Beyond the Leisure Principle: Luce and Neo-Impressionism 4. Work and Pleasure: Zola's Travail Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

A propos de l'auteur

Claire White is a Research Fellow at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, UK. She has published on a range of nineteenth-century French literature in journals such as Romanic Review and Modern Language Review.

Résumé

In this engaging new study, Claire White reveals how representations of work and leisure became the vehicle for anxieties and fantasies about class and alienation, affecting, in turn, the ways in which writers and artists understood their own cultural work.

Texte suppl.

“Claire White presents a fresh, interdisciplinary
perspective on the ‘alternation of toil and festivity’ during the nineteenth century
… . White’s book provides  an innovative
interdisciplinary approach to questions on the discourse surrounding
nineteenth-century French literature and art, framing the larger philosophical
debates generated by the tensions between modernity and modernism in the
context of work and leisure.” (Karen Turman, Nineteenth-Century French Studies,
Vol. 44, Winter, 2015/2016)

Commentaire

"Claire White presents a fresh, interdisciplinary perspective on the 'alternation of toil and festivity' during the nineteenth century ... . White's book provides  an innovative interdisciplinary approach to questions on the discourse surrounding nineteenth-century French literature and art, framing the larger philosophical debates generated by the tensions between modernity and modernism in the context of work and leisure." (Karen Turman, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. 44, Winter, 2015/2016)

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: C White, C. White
• Edition: Springer, Berlin
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9781349476404
• ISBN: 978-1-349-47640-4
• Pages: 246
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 14 mm x 216 mm
• Illustrations: XIV, 246 p.
• Thème: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée; Europa, B, TIME, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Literaturwissenschaft: 1800 bis 1900, Europe, The arts: general issues, Fiction, Arts, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, European Literature, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Kunst: allgemeine Themen