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Work and Leisure in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Visual Culture: Time, Politics and Class (Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature)
Claire White
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Description for Work and Leisure in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Visual Culture: Time, Politics and Class (Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature)
Hardcover. 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. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. Num Pages: 264 pages, 9 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 151 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137373069
SKU
V9781137373069
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Ref
99-15
About Claire White
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.
Reviews for Work and Leisure in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Visual Culture: Time, Politics and Class (Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature)
“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, ... Read more