001479827 000__ 04688nam\a22008055i\4500 001479827 001__ 1479827 001479827 003__ DE-B1597 001479827 005__ 20231026035112.0 001479827 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479827 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479827 008__ 230918t20122012nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479827 020__ $$a9780814748916 001479827 0247_ $$a10.18574/nyu/9780814748909.001.0001$$2doi 001479827 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)548237 001479827 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479827 0410_ $$aeng 001479827 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001479827 050_4 $$aHC110.L3$$bK65 2016 001479827 072_7 $$aSOC002010$$2bisacsh 001479827 08204 $$a331.118097309034$$223 001479827 1001_ $$aKnighton, Andrew Lyndon, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut. 001479827 24510 $$aIdle Threats :$$bMen and the Limits of Productivity in Nineteenth Century America /$$cAndrew Lyndon Knighton. 001479827 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : : $$bNew York University Press, $$c[2012] 001479827 264_4 $$c©2012 001479827 300__ $$a1 online resource 001479827 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479827 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479827 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479827 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479827 4900_ $$aAmerica and the Long 19th Century ; ;$$v15 001479827 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIntroduction -- $$t1. The Bartleby Industry and Bartleby's Idleness -- $$t2. Repose -- $$t3. The Line of Productiveness -- $$t4. Vital Reserves Revisited -- $$t5. Conclusion -- $$tNotes -- $$tIndex -- $$tAbout the Author 001479827 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479827 520__ $$aThe 19th century witnessed an explosion of writing about unproductivity, with the exploits of various idlers, loafers, and "gentlemen of refinement" capturing the imagination o fa country that was deeply ambivalent about its work ethic. Idle Threats documents this American obsession with unproductivity and its potentials, while offering an explanation of the profound significance of idle practices for literary and cultural production.While this fascination with unproductivity memorably defined literary characters from Rip Van Winkle to Bartleby to George Hurstwood, it also reverberated deeply through the entire culture, both as a seductive ideal and as a potentially corrosive threat to upright, industrious American men. Drawing on an impressive array of archival material and multifaceted literary and cultural sources, Idle Threats connects the question of unproductivity to other discourses concerning manhood, the value of art, the allure of the frontier, the usefulness of knowledge,the meaning of individuality, and the experience of time, space, and history. Andrew Lyndon Knighton offers a new way of thinking about the largely unacknowledged "productivity of the unproductive," revealing the incalculable and sometimes surprising ways in which American modernity transformed the relationship between subjects and that which is most intimate to them: their own activity. 001479827 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001479827 546__ $$aIn English. 001479827 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023) 001479827 650_0 $$aLabor productivity$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y19th century. 001479827 650_0 $$aLeisure$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y19th century. 001479827 650_4 $$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social$$2sh. 001479827 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001479827 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tNew York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013$$z9783110706444 001479827 7760_ $$cprint$$z9780814748909 001479827 852__ $$bebk 001479827 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814748916$$zOnline Access 001479827 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1479827$$pGLOBAL_SET 001479827 912__ $$a978-3-11-070644-4 New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013$$c2000$$d2013 001479827 912__ $$aEBA_BACKALL 001479827 912__ $$aEBA_CL_SN 001479827 912__ $$aEBA_EBACKALL 001479827 912__ $$aEBA_EBKALL 001479827 912__ $$aEBA_ECL_SN 001479827 912__ $$aEBA_EEBKALL 001479827 912__ $$aEBA_ESSHALL 001479827 912__ $$aEBA_PPALL 001479827 912__ $$aEBA_SSHALL 001479827 912__ $$aGBV-deGruyter-alles 001479827 912__ $$aPDA11SSHE 001479827 912__ $$aPDA13ENGE 001479827 912__ $$aPDA17SSHEE 001479827 912__ $$aPDA5EBK 001479827 980__ $$aBIB 001479827 980__ $$aEBOOK 001479827 982__ $$aEbook 001479827 983__ $$aOnline