The work of words : literature, craft, and the labour of mind in Britain, 1830-1940 /
Explores the connection between writers' desire to prove that they 'work' and parallel histories of craft and artisanal revival.
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.