Books : The Anxieties of Idleness: Idleness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture (The Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 820.9355
EAN num: 9780838755235
ISBN number: 0838755232
Label: Bucknell University Press
Manufacturer: Bucknell University Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 298
Printing Date: 2003-03
Publishing house: Bucknell University Press
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Studio: Bucknell University Press
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This book investigates the preoccupation with idleness that haunts the British eighteenth century, arguing that as Great Britain began to define itself as a nation during this period, one important quality it claimed was industriousness. Because this claim was undermined and complicated by many factors, such as leisure's importance to class status, idleness was a subject of intense anxiety. Jordan analyzes how the 'idleness' of the working classes, the nonwhite races, and women is figured, and she examines the lives and works of two writers especially obsessed with idleness.
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