Into Our Labours – Work and its Representation in World–Literary Perspective

Into Our LaboursWork and its Representation in World-Literary Perspective\nAuthor(s): Neil Lazarus\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781835537077, 978-1835537077\nSynopsis\nInto 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, are emphasised. First, an inaugural experience of capitalist social relations, whose literary registration sometimes makes itself known through a crisis of representation, as the forms of space- and time-consciousness demanded by life in contexts in which market-oriented commodity produc.