Idle threats : men and the limits of productivity in 19th-Century America /
Knighton, Andrew Lyndon.
New York ; London : New York University Press,
c2012.
Includes bibliographical references ( p. 181-231) 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.
Labor productivity
Leisure