Idle threats [electronic resource] : men and the limits of productivity in 19th-Century America / Andrew Lyndon Knighton.
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- 9780814748916
- 0814748902
- 331.11/8097309034 23
- HC110.L3 K65 2012
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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