The Work of Words
The Work of Words 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…
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The Work of Words
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. 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. 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.
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
Words That Work
The Garden of Words
Words of the Inuit
THE INVENTION OF WORDS
The War of Words
The Book of Words
The Work of the Future
The Story of Work
The Refusal of Work
The Work of Christ
The Joy of Work
The Work of Christ
Words That Work - Eaton Alcia
Words of the Bible Explained
The Dictionary of Lost Words
Upon the Altar of Work
The Work of This Moment