Idle Threats
Men and the Limits of Productivity in Nineteenth Century America
The 19th century witnessed an explosion of writing about unproductivity, with the exploits of various idlers, loafers, and gentlemen of refinement” capturing the imagination o fa country that was deeply ambivalent about its work ethic. Idle Threats documents this American obsession with unproductivity and its potentials, while offering an explanation of the profound significance of idle practices for literary and cultural production.While this fascination with unproductivity memorably defined literary characters from Rip Van Winkle to Bartleby to George Hurstwood, it also reverberated deeply through the entire culture, both as a seductive ide…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8147-4944-9
- EAN: 9780814749449
- Produktnummer: 21433580
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'246 KB
- Reihenbandnummer: 15
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Andrew Lyndon Knighton
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