Into Our Labours: Work and Its Representation in World-Literary Perspective

by Neil Lazarus

Book Overview

Into our Labours explores the literary representation of work across the globe since 1850, setting out to show that the literature of modernity is best understood in the light of the worlding of capitalism. The book proposes that a determinative relation exists between changing modes of work and changes in the forms, genres, and aesthetic strategies of the writing that bears witness to them. Two aspects of the 'worlding' of modernity, especially,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1835537073
• ISBN13: 9781835537077
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 200 Pages