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10%OFFAndrew Lyndon Knighton - Idle Threats: Men and the Limits of Productivity in Nineteenth Century America (America and the Long 19th Century) - 9780814789391 - V9780814789391
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Idle Threats: Men and the Limits of Productivity in Nineteenth Century America (America and the Long 19th Century)

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Description for Idle Threats: Men and the Limits of Productivity in Nineteenth Century America (America and the Long 19th Century) Paperback. Offers a new way of thinking about the largely unacknowledged "productivity of the unproductive" Series: America and the Long 19th Century. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; JFC; JFSJ2; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 398.

The 19th century witnessed an explosion of writing about unproductivity, with the exploits of various idlers, loafers, and “gentlemen of refinement” capturing the imagination o fa country that was deeply ambivalent about its work ethic. Idle Threats documents this American obsession with unproductivity and its potentials, while offering an explanation of the profound significance of idle practices for literary and cultural production.

While this fascination with unproductivity memorably defined literary characters from Rip Van Winkle to Bartleby to George Hurstwood, it also reverberated deeply through the entire culture, both as a seductive ideal and as a potentially ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
NYU Press
Condition
New
Series
America and the Long 19th Century
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814789391
SKU
V9780814789391
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Ref
99-50

About Andrew Lyndon Knighton
Andrew Lyndon Knighton is Associate Professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles.

Reviews for Idle Threats: Men and the Limits of Productivity in Nineteenth Century America (America and the Long 19th Century)
Critics and readers often speak of literary works. And while a lot of energy has been expended on pondering the qualities and attributes that make something literary, comparatively little consideration has been given to exploring why it is commonplace to speak of textual artifact as a 'work....' Though Andrew Lyndon Knighton's Idle Threats: Men and the Limits of Productivity in ... Read more

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