Talking shop
Subtitle: the language of craft in an age of consumption
By: Peter Betjemann
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780813931210; 9780813931692
Subjects: Artisans in literature; Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature; History and criticism; American literature; Material culture in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The ghost writer; or, The canonization of Benvenuto Cellini; title: Legends of labor: Nathaniel Hawthorne and the voice of craft; title: The nature of gothic: artisanship, intuition, and the representation of expertise; title: In the American grain: Gustav Stickley and the artisanal type; title: The syntax of the eye: author, artisan, and the "more laboring ages" in Henry James's The spoils of Poynton; title: Conclusion.