Idle threats
Subtitle: men and the limits of productivity in nineteenth-century America
By: Andrew Lyndon Knighton
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780814748909; 9780814789391; 9780814748916; 9780814749449
Subjects: Labor productivity; Leisure; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Bartleby industry and Bartleby's idleness; title: Repose : the expression and experience of the circulatory sublime; title: The line of productiveness : fear at the frontiers; title: Vital reserves revisited : the energies of the social body; title: Conclusion : idle thoughts and useless knowledge in the American Renaissance, and beyond.