Idle threats
Knighton, Andrew Lyndon.
Idle threats men and the limits of productivity in 19th-Century America / [electronic resource] : Andrew Lyndon Knighton. - New York : New York University Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (272 p.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780814748916 0814748902
Leisure--History--United States--19th century.
Labor productivity--History--United States--19th century.
Electronic books.
HC110.L3 / K65 2012
331.11/8097309034
Idle threats men and the limits of productivity in 19th-Century America / [electronic resource] : Andrew Lyndon Knighton. - New York : New York University Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (272 p.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780814748916 0814748902
Leisure--History--United States--19th century.
Labor productivity--History--United States--19th century.
Electronic books.
HC110.L3 / K65 2012
331.11/8097309034