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The Work of Words de Marcus Waithe

The Work of Words

Autor Marcus Waithe
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 ian 2023
Examines Victorian and modernist writers who re-describe their work as an artisanal labour The Work of Words considers the unconventional path of middle-class writers who re-presented literature as a manual craft. Tracking this ideal of 'author-craft' through the work of - among others - Thomas Carlyle, George Eliot, Elizabeth Barret Browning, John Ruskin, William Gladstone, Charles Dickens, William Morris, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Olive Schreiner, these chapters culminate in Ezra Pound's troubling conception of a usury that 'rusteth the craft and the craftsman'. By examining previous attempts to make composition palpable, this study takes the long view on questions that still preoccupy us, including the convergence of Left and Right positions in labour politics, revivals of workshop culture and debates about the weight and worth of the humanities. Marcus Waithe is a University Associate Professor in English at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Magdalene College.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781399512299
ISBN-10: 1399512293
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 14 B/W illustrations 14 black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Editura: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS

Descriere

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.

Notă biografică

Marcus Waithe is University Senior Lecturer; and Fellow in English, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. His published books include Thinking through Style: Non-Fiction Prose of the Long Nineteenth Century, ed. with Michael Hurley (OUP, 2018), The Labour of Literature in Britain and France: Authorial Work Ethics, ed. with Claire White (Palgrave, 2018) and William Morris's Utopia of Strangers: Victorian Medievalism and the Ideal of Hospitality (D.S. Brewer, 2006).