Idle Threats : : Men and the Limits of Productivity in Nineteenth Century America / / Andrew Lyndon Knighton.
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 unproductiv...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | America and the Long 19th Century ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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