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The work of words : literature, craft, and the labour of mind in Britain, 1830-1940  Cover Image E-book E-book

The work of words : literature, craft, and the labour of mind in Britain, 1830-1940

Waithe, Marcus (author.).

Summary: Explores the connection between writers' desire to prove that they 'work' and parallel histories of craft and artisanal revival.

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  • ISBN: 1399512315
  • ISBN: 9781399512312
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 307 pages) : illustrations
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  • Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2023]

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Introduction -- Part I Anxious Vocations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Carlyle's 'Author-Craft' -- Chapter 2 Ford Madox Brown Among the Brain-Workers -- Part II Writers at Work -- Introduction -- Chapter 3 Barrett Browning's Poetic Vocation -- Chapter 4 Participant Observers: Gladstone, Ruskin, Morris -- Part III Craft Consciousness -- Introduction -- Chapter 5 Songs of the Forge -- Chapter 6 Modernism and the Maker -- Conclusion: Writing as Working -- Notes -- Index.
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Description based on online resource; title from PDFl title page (JSTOR, viewed on February 10, 2023).
Subject: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Work in literature
Authorship -- History -- 20th century
Authorship -- History -- 19th century
Work -- History -- 19th century
Work -- History -- 20th century
Authors, English -- 19th century
Authors, English -- 20th century
Littérature anglaise -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique
Littérature anglaise -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
Travail dans la littérature
Art d'écrire -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
Art d'écrire -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
Travail -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
Travail -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
Écrivains anglais -- 19e siècle
Écrivains anglais -- 20e siècle
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Work in literature
English literature
Authors, English
Authorship
Work
Literary studies: general
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Society & culture: general
Society
Genre: electronic book > ebook
Literary criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.

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