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The Work of Words - Literature, Craft, and the Labour of Mind in Britain, 1830-1940 (Hardcover)
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The Work of Words - Literature, Craft, and the Labour of Mind in Britain, 1830-1940 (Hardcover)
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Rather than focus on the well-known 'dignity of literature' debate,
whereby authors such as Dickens sought to establish authorship as a
middle-class profession, The Work of Words considers the
alternative path of middle-class writers who re-presented
literature as a manual craft. Unlike many works in the field, it
extends beyond the mid-Victorian novel as a generic and historical
focus, to address its aesthetic and political afterlife right up to
the periods of Guild Socialism, modernism and European fascism.
Given the tilt of world trade towards China, and more recent supply
chain shocks, it is not just writers who are haunted by a lost
world of material production, but much of the de-industrialised
West. By studying the Victorian attempt to make composition (and
related mental processes) palpable, this book takes the long view
on questions that still trouble us, and responds to recent
concerns, whether as manifested through the revival of craft and
workshop culture, or debates about the visibility, weight and worth
of the humanities.
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