White Work and Leisure in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Visual Culture

Time, Politics and Class
2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-37307-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 246 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

White, C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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 .