Idle threats [electronic resource] : men and the limits of productivity in 19th-Century America / Andrew Lyndon Knighton.

By: Knighton, Andrew LyndonContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : New York University Press, c2012Description: x, 241 p. : illSubject(s): Labor productivity -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Leisure -- United States -- History -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 331.11/8097309034 LOC classification: HC110.L3 | K65 2012Online resources: Click to View
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.
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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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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