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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 u...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Bartleby industry and Bartleby's idleness
- Repose : the expression and experience of the circulatory sublime
- The line of productiveness : fear at the frontiers
- Vital reserves revisited : the energies of the social body
- Conclusion : idle thoughts and useless knowledge in the American Renaissance, and beyond.