Work and Leisure in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Visual Culture: Time, Politics and Class by C. White (Hardcover, 2014)

Be the first towrite a review.
Price:
AU $111.00
Free postage
Estimated delivery Thu, 13 Jun - Wed, 10 Jul
Returns:
30-day returns. Buyer pays for return postage.
Condition:
Brand new
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. Claire White List of Illustrations Prefatory Note Series Preface 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