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.



Autorentext
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.

Inhalt
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
Titel
Work and Leisure in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Visual Culture
Untertitel
Time, Politics and Class
EAN
9781137373076
ISBN
978-1-137-37307-6
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Veröffentlichung
25.06.2014
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Dateigrösse
2.57 MB
Anzahl Seiten
246
Jahr
2014
Untertitel
Englisch