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

Time, Politics and Class
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-349-47641-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3358 g

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.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein

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 and .