TY - BOOK AU - Knighton,Andrew Lyndon ED - Project Muse. TI - Idle threats: men and the limits of productivity in 19th-Century America SN - 9780814748916 AV - HC110.L3 K65 2012 U1 - 331.11/8097309034 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - New York University Press KW - Leisure KW - United States KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Labor productivity KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780814748916/ ER -