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

Author/creator Knighton, Andrew Lyndon
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoNew York : New York University Press,
Descriptionx, 241 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Supplemental Content Full text available from UPCC Books History 2012 Subject Collection
Subject(s)
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references ( p. 181-231) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011051504
ISBN9780814748909 (cl : alk. paper)
ISBN0814748902 (cl : alk. paper)
ISBN9780814789391 (pb : alk. paper)
ISBN0814789390 (pb : alk. paper)
ISBN9780814748916 (ebook)
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