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    • Author/Creator:Betjemann, Peter J., 1973-
    • Title:Talking shop [electronic resource] : the language of craft in an age of consumption / Peter Betjemann.
    • ISBN:9780813931210 (cloth alk. paper)
      9780813931692 (e-book)
    • Published/Created:Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, c2011.
    • Physical Description:ix, 267 p. : ill.
    • Links:Online book
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    • Local Notes:Access is available to the Yale community.
    • Notes:Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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    • Format:Book
    • BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (p. [249]-258) and index.
    • Contents:The 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.
    • Subjects:American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
      American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
      Material culture in literature.
      Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature.
      Artisans in literature.
    • Also listed under:ebrary, Inc.