Download or read book Work and Leisure in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Visual Culture written by C. White and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-25 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.