The Work of Words : : Literature, Craft, and the Labour of Mind in Britain, 1830–1940 / / Marcus Waithe.
Explores the connection between writers’ desire to prove that they ‘work’ and parallel histories of craft and artisanal revivalOffers the first sustained study of the connection between writers’ desire to prove that they ‘work’ and parallel forms of craft and artisanal revivalOffers a long view on w...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I Anxious Vocations -- Chapter 1 Carlyle’s ‘Author-Craft’ -- Chapter 2 Ford Madox Brown Among the Brain-Workers -- Part II Writers at Work -- Chapter 3 Barrett Browning’s Poetic Vocation -- Chapter 4 Participant Observers: Gladstone, Ruskin, Morris -- Part III Craft Consciousness -- Chapter 5 Songs of the Forge -- Chapter 6 Modernism and the Maker -- Conclusion: Writing as Working -- Notes -- Index |
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