Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in English Literature [electronic resource] /
Fludernik, Monika.editor.
Nandi, Miriam.editor.
Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in English Literature is the first study to provide transhistorical perspectives and cutting-edge critical analyses of debates concerning idleness in English literature. The topicality of the subject is emphasized by two pieces of sociological analysis.
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction; 1 Otium, Negotium, and the Fear of Acedia in the Writings of England's Late Medieval Ricardian Poets; 2 The Dangers and Pleasures of Filling Vacuous Time: Idleness in Early Modern Diaries; 3 The 'Sweet Toyle' of Blissful Bowers: Arresting Idleness in the English Renaissance; 4 Idleness, Apprentices and Machines in Deloney and Dekker; 5 Idleness, Class and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century; 6 The Performativity of Idleness: Representations and Stagings of Idleness in the Context of Colonialism
7 Dramas of Idleness: The Comedy of Manners in the Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Oscar Wilde8 Idleness and Creativity: Poetic Disquisitions on Idleness in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries; 9 Versions of Working- Class Idleness: Non- Productivity and the Critique of Victorian Workaholism; 10 Against Busyness: Idling in Victorian and Contemporary Travel Writing; 11 Tramping: The Cult of the Vagabond in Early Twentieth- Century England; 12 Englishness, Summer and the Pastoral of Country Leisure in Twentieth- Century Literature
13 Sociology of Leisure and the Wars of the Lifestyle GurusEpilogue: Remember that Time Is Knowledge, Health and Happiness: On the Mysterious Disappearance of Leisure; Select Bibliography on Idleness, Indolence and Leisure; Author Index; Subject Index
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in English Literature is the first study to provide transhistorical perspectives and cutting-edge critical analyses of debates concerning idleness in English literature. The topicality of the subject is emphasized by two pieces of sociological analysis.
British literature.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Civilization-History.
Poetry.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Cultural History.
Sociology of Culture.
Poetry and Poetics.