Work and Leisure in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Visual Culture: Time, Politics and Class

In this engaging new study, Claire White reveals how representations of work and leisure became the vehicle for anxieties and fantasies about class and alienation, affecting, in turn, the ways in which writers and artists understood their own cultural work.

Claire White is a Research Fellow at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, UK. She has published on a range of nineteenth-century French literature in journals such as Romanic Review and Modern Language Review.