Work and Leisure in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Visual Culture [electronic resource] : Time, Politics and Class /
White, C.author.
In this engaging new study, Claire White reveals how representations of work and leisure became the vehicle for anxieties and fantasies about class and alienation, affecting, in turn, the ways in which writers and artists understood their own cultural work.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Series Editors' Preface; Prefatory Note; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Workers at Play in Zola''s Les Rougon-Macquart; 2 Dominical Diversions: Laforgue on Sundays; 3 Beyond the Leisure Principle: Luce and Neo-Impressionism; 4 Work and Pleasure: Zola''s Travail; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In this engaging new study, Claire White reveals how representations of work and leisure became the vehicle for anxieties and fantasies about class and alienation, affecting, in turn, the ways in which writers and artists understood their own cultural work.
Fiction.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Arts.
European literature.
Fiction.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Arts.
European Literature.