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9781137373069

Work and Leisure in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Visual Culture Time, Politics and Class

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    9781137373069

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    1137373067

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2014-06-24
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

The language of labour and leisure politics was burned onto the social consciousness in France by the Revolution, and it would remain critical to the ideals and conflicts at stake in future moments of upheaval. In the years following the Paris Commune, the mobilisation of the workforce and the struggle for labour reforms brought centre stage questions about time, politics and individual and collective rights. Claire White's account brings late nineteenth-century literature and art into conjunction with political discourses, philosophy and the social sciences to reveal how representations of work and leisure became the vehicle for class anxieties and utopian fantasies. More than topics of cultural history, this study shows how the terms and politics of labour and leisure were fundamental to artistic self-conceptions, affecting the ways in which writers and artists understood their own cultural work. Moving between fiction, poetry and painting, this study refocuses works by the canonical writers Émile Zola and Jules Laforgue, and the long-overlooked Neo-Impressionist painter Maximilien Luce.

Author Biography

Claire White is a Research Fellow at Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge, and temporary University Lecturer at the Department of French, University of Cambridge, UK. Her previous publications include articles in journals including Romantic Review and Modern Language Review.

Table of Contents

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

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