- Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
- A cura di Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
La riscoperta dell’ozio nella letteratura inglese di fine Ottocento: Robert Louis Stevenson, Jerome K. Jerome, Oscar Wilde
- Federico Bellini
- © 2024 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.79
The Victorian era is often considered to have been dominated by the 'Gospel of work', that is, the ideology that identified work as one of the supreme virtues. However, starting from about the 1870s, this ideology started to be more and more radically questioned by several writers who claimed in favour of idleness. In this essay, I analyse and compare three of the most relevant British partisans of idleness of the period – Robert Louis Stevenson, Jerome K. Jerome and Oscar Wilde –, in order to show how idleness played a key role in the development of their poetic and how they contributed to its reevaluation as an alternative value for the modern times.
- Keywords:
- Idleness,
- work,
- Stevenson Robert Louis,
- Jerome K. Jerome,
- Oscar Wilde,
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Titolo del capitolo
La riscoperta dell’ozio nella letteratura inglese di fine Ottocento: Robert Louis Stevenson, Jerome K. Jerome, Oscar Wilde
Autori
Federico Bellini
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.79
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Anno di pubblicazione
2024
Copyright
© 2024 Author(s)
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Informazioni bibliografiche
Titolo del libro
Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
Curatori
Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
1894
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7
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979-12-215-0245-9
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979-12-215-0319-7
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979-12-215-0320-3
Collana
Studi e saggi
ISSN della collana
2704-6478
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2704-5919