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Idle threats [electronic resource] : men and the limits of productivity in 19th-Century America / Andrew Lyndon Knighton.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: New York : New York University Press, c2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780814748916
  • 0814748902
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 331.11/8097309034 23
LOC classification:
  • HC110.L3 K65 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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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.

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