Title: Idle threats : men and the limits of productivity in 19th-Century America /
Authors: Knighton, Andrew Lyndon.
Publisher: New York University Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Labor productivity United States History; Leisure United States History
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.