Title The work of words : literature, craft, and the labour of mind in Britain, 1830-1940 / Marcus Waithe

Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2023] ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (x, 307 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction -- Part I Anxious Vocations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Carlyle's 'Author-Craft' -- Chapter 2 Ford Madox Brown Among the Brain-Workers -- Part II Writers at Work -- Introduction -- Chapter 3 Barrett Browning's Poetic Vocation -- Chapter 4 Participant Observers: Gladstone, Ruskin, Morris -- Part III Craft Consciousness -- Introduction -- Chapter 5 Songs of the Forge -- Chapter 6 Modernism and the Maker -- Conclusion: Writing as Working -- Notes -- Index Summary Explores the connection between writers' desire to prove that they 'work' and parallel histories of craft and artisanal revival Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from PDFl title page (JSTOR, viewed on February 10, 2023) Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Work in literature. Authorship -- History -- 20th century Authorship -- History -- 19th century Work -- History -- 19th century Work -- History -- 20th century Authors, English -- 19th century. Authors, English -- 20th century. LITERARY COLLECTIONS / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Work in literature English literature Authors, English Authorship Work Literary studies: general. Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers. Society & culture: general. Society. Genre/Form Literary criticism Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781399512312 1399512315

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