LEADER 04018nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910968886803321 005 20251117081002.0 010 $a0-8139-3169-X 035 $a(CKB)2670000000176398 035 $a(OCoLC)785943089 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10554880 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606723 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11372172 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606723 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10597944 035 $a(PQKB)11168248 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3444015 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse4032 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3444015 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10554880 035 $a(BIP)33831625 035 $a(BIP)33831624 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000176398 100 $a20110107d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTalking shop $ethe language of craft in an age of consumption /$fPeter Betjemann 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCharlottesville $cUniversity of Virginia Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (279 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-8139-3121-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [249]-258) and index. 327 $aThe ghost writer: the canonization of Benvenuto Cellini -- Legends of labor: Nathaniel Hawthorne and the voice of craft -- The nature of gothic: artisanship, intuition, and the representation of expertise -- In the American grain: Gustav Stickley and the artisanal type -- The syntax of the eye: author, artisan, and the "more laboring ages" in Henry James's The spoils of Poynton -- Conclusion. 330 $aDescribing everything from bread and cappuccinos to mass-market furnishings, a language of the "artisanal" saturates our culture today. That language, Peter Betjemann proposes, has a rich and specifiable history. Between 1840 and 1920, the cultural appetite for handmade chairs, tables, cabinets, and other material odds and ends flowed through narrative and texts as much as through dusty workshops or the physical surfaces of clay, wood, or metal. Judged by classic axioms about labor's virtue--axioms originating with Plato and foundational to modern theories of workmanship--the vigorous life of craft as represented in these texts might seem a secondhand version of an ideal and purposeful activity. But Talking Shop celebrates these texts as a cultural phenomenon of their own. In the first book to consider the literary representation of craft rather than of labor in general, Peter Betjemann asks how nineteenth and early twentieth-century craftspeople, writers, and consumers managed craft's traditional attachment to physical objects and activities while also celebrating craft in iconic, emblematic, preeminently textual terms. The durable model of workmanship that was created around correlations of craft and narrative, physical process and representation, and body and text blurred the boundaries between craft and its consumption. Discussing a wide range of material from fiction and essays to artifacts, the book explores how the era paved the way for the vitality and the viability of a language of craft in much later decades. 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMaterial culture in literature 606 $aAuthenticity (Philosophy) in literature 606 $aArtisans in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMaterial culture in literature. 615 0$aAuthenticity (Philosophy) in literature. 615 0$aArtisans in literature. 676 $a813/.409355 700 $aBetjemann$b Peter J.$f1973-$01869501 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910968886803321 996 $aTalking shop$94477672 997 $aUNINA