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

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

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

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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.

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

Work and Leisure in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Visual Culture: Time, Politics and Class by C. White

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.

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

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)

About C. 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.

Table of Contents

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

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NLS9781349476411
9781349476411
1349476412
Work and Leisure in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Visual Culture: Time, Politics and Class by C. White
C. White
Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature
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Palgrave Macmillan
2014-01-01
246
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