The Work of Words: Literature, Craft, and the Labour of Mind in Britain, 1830-1940

ISBN-13: 9781399512299 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

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Preface
Introduction

I. ANXIOUS VOCATIONS
Chapter 1. Carlyle’s ‘Author Craft’
i. Books and Buildings
ii. Carlyle’s ‘Craftmanship'
iii. The Pen and the Hammer

Chapter 2. Ford Madox Brown Among the Brain-Workers
i. Seeming Idleness
ii. Idle Observers
iii. Disciplines of a Diarist

II. WRITERS AT WORK
Chapter 3. Barrett Browning’s Poetic Vocation
i. ‘Song is work’: Barrett Browning’s Poetic Labour
ii. ‘The writer bodily’: Women and Work
iii. Letters, Invalidism, and Poetic Labour

Chapter 4. Participant Observers: Gladstone, Ruskin, and Morris
i. Gladstone’s Odyssean Toolshop
ii. John Ruskin, Professor of Digging
iii. Morris’s Song-Craft

III. CRAFT CONSCIOUSNESS
Chapter 5. Songs of the Forge
i. Harmonious Blacksmiths
ii. Nail-bearers: Ruskin’s Fors Clavigera
iii. Hopkins’s Poetic Anvil

Chapter 6. Modernism and the Maker

i. ‘My mind strikes work’: Olive Schreiner and the Ecstatic Word
ii. Gill’s Letter-Craft
iii. Rusty Chisels: Pound, Prejudice, and Poetic Apprenticeship

Conclusion: Writing as Working