Labours of Attention: Work, Class and Society in French and Francophone Literature and Culture

Adam Watt

Labours of Attention
Work, Class and Society in French and Francophone Literature and Culture
Essays for Edward J. Hughes

Adam Watt

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13 September 2022 • 304pp

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Focussing on the experience of work, community and the functioning of class society; on relations between France and Algeria and France’s wider colonial project; and on creative labour as both artisanal and artistic, contributors to Labours of Attention follow paths opened up by the scholarship of Edward J. Hughes. Via critical engagements with the works of Albert Camus and Marcel Proust, as well as with a wider constellation of writers (including Pierre Michon, Jean Genet, Simone de Beauvoir, Blaise Cendrars), artists (including Vincent Van Gogh, Fernand Léger and Paul Cézanne) and film-makers (including Alain Resnais, Yacine Balah and Paolo Sorrentino) this collection of essays explores how these themes and critical preoccupations are captured, problematized and negotiated by twentieth-century literary writing and cultural production in French.

Adam Watt is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Exeter.

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1	Introduction Adam Watt	Cite
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2	Albert Camus and the Place of the Literary David R. Ellison	Cite
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3	Camus’s Travel Writing, or the Road to Pamina Peter Dunwoodie	Cite
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4	Camus, La Peste et le coronavirus: ‘une histoire collective’ Jeanyves Guérin	Cite
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5	Oran’s Endogenous Evil: A Rereading of Albert Camus’s La Peste Ieme van der Poel	Cite
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6	Ces hommes qu’on raie de l’humanité: Transcolonial Connections in the French Penal Colony Charles Forsdick	Cite
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7	Empire, Memory and Language in Pierre Michon’s ‘Vie d’André Dufourneau’ Patrick Crowley	Cite
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8	Resnais’s Kaleidoscope Anna Magdalena Elsner	Cite
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9	Feeling the French-Algerian War: Male Vulnerability, Shame and the Wounds of Brotherhood in Yacine Balah’s Frères ennemis (2013) James Williams	Cite
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10	‘Tu renonces à toi pour devenir tout le monde’: Visions of Labour and Society in Blaise Cendrars and Fernand Léger Eric Robertson	Cite
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11	‘Le naufrage de l’homme profane’: Genet and the Anecdotal Richard Mason	Cite
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12	Late-life Care and the Labours of Attention in Contemporary Women’s Writing Shirley Jordan	Cite
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13	Proustian Afterlives: Paolo Sorrentino’s La grande bellezza (2013) Marion Schmid	Cite
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14	Along the rue Jean de La Fontaine: The Fables in A la recherche du temps perdu Michael Moriarty	Cite
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15	Proust’s Prosopopoeias John O'Brien	Cite
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16	Proust’s House of Fiction Patrick O’Donovan	Cite
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17	Des ‘parasites précieux’: impureté et antinationalisme dans le roman proustien Marisa Verna	Cite
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18	Proust, an Inevitable engagé? Cynthia Gamble	Cite
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19	Community in Solitude: Inter-art Epistolarity through Late-modern Critical Thought Susan Harrow	Cite
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20	‘Les noms magiques’: Names, Places and Persian-ness in Noailles, Bibesco and Proust Julia Caterina Hartley	Cite
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21	L’Érotique d’A la recherche du temps perdu Jacques Dubois	Cite
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22	Echoes of Sodom in Gomorrah: The Chastisement of Albertine in Proust’s La Prisonnière Margaret E. Gray	Cite
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23	Edward Hughes and the Quality of Awareness Alison Finch	Cite
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24	Edward J. Hughes: Select Bibliography Adam Watt	Cite
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Labours of AttentionWork, Class and Society in French and Francophone Literature and CultureEssays for Edward J. Hughes

Adam Watt

Labours of Attention
Work, Class and Society in French and Francophone Literature and Culture
Essays for Edward J. Hughes