Idle threats : men and the limits of productivity in 19th-Century America /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2012]
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| Series: | America and the long 19th century.
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Table of 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.