Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Spanish literature --- Industrial sociology --- Labor in literature --- Themes, motives.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Italian literature --- Italian literature --- Labor in literature --- Authors, Italian --- Authors, Italian --- History and criticism --- History and criticism

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"Reconstructing the literary and philosophical reaction to Adam Smith's dictum that man is a labouring animal above and before all else, this study explores the many ways in which Romantic writers presented idle contemplation as the central activity in human life. By contrasting the British response to Smith's political economy with that of contemporary German Idealists, Richard Adelman also uses this consideration of the importance of idleness to Romantic aesthetics to chart the development of a distinctly British idealism in the last decades of the eighteenth century. Exploring the work of Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, Friedrich Schiller, William Cowper, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Wollstonecraft and many of their contemporaries, this study pinpoints a debate over human activity and capability taking place between 1750 and 1830, and considers its social and political consequences for the cultural theory of the early nineteenth century"--

English literature --- Romanticism --- Aesthetics, British --- Solitude in literature. --- Labor in literature. --- Idealism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"We Who Work the West examines literary representations of class, labor, and space in the American West from 1885 to 2012"--

Western stories --- American fiction --- Working class in literature. --- Labor in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism. --- West (U.S.) --- In literature.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Arpenter les lieux de la mémoire ouvrière et paysanne, explorer les nouveaux terrains de l’emploi tertiaire, inventorier et réinventer les langues qui façonnent le monde de l’usine et de l’entreprise : tel est souvent le programme des textes fictionnels ou documentaires consacrés au travail depuis les années 80. Ces ouvrages ont retenu l’attention de la critique universitaire récente. Manquait cependant encore une étude de fond consacrée à ce qui est pourtant un des enjeux fondamentaux de ces textes : leur portée politique. Ce volume s’attache donc à interroger les formes de l’implication qu’ils mettent en œuvre, de l’examen critique du monde social à l’élaboration d’un discours tourné vers la praxis. Il espère ainsi contribuer à penser les rapports de la littérature contemporaine au politique ; et, par là même, participer à l’élaboration d’une cartographie du champ littéraire au tournant du millénaire. To walk in the path of the industrial and rural working-class memory, to explore the new fields of tertiary employment, to survey and reinvent the languages that shape the factory and the company: such have often been the aims of fictional or documentary texts on labor since the 1980s. These works have caught the attention of recent academic critics. Remained nevertheless lacking an in-depth study on what is though a fundamental issue of these texts: their political reach. This volume interrogates the forms of implications they set in motion, from critically examining the social world to constructing a discourse aimed towards praxis. It thus examines the relations between contemporary literature and politics. In the same way, it elaborates a literary cartography at the turn of the millennium, through a panoramic corpus, of the movement of literature’s re-politicization as initiated by the business novel genre. Borrowing the humanities’ tools to reflect on capitalism’s metamorphosis, it offers new forms of legibility in reality, while posing anew the question of…

French literature - 21st century - History and criticism - Congresses --- Labor in literature - Congresses --- Work in literature - Congresses --- Politics and literature - France - Congresses --- Authors, French - 21st century - Interviews --- Literature, Romance --- littérature française --- travail --- société --- French literature --- Labor in literature --- Work in literature --- Politics and literature --- Authors, French