Idleness, indolence and leisure in English literature
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Idleness, indolence and leisure in English literature
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
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Description
Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in English Literature is the first study to provide transhistorical perspectives and cutting-edge critical analyses of debates concerning idleness in English literature. The topicality of the subject is emphasized by two pieces of sociological analysis.
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations Notes on the Contributors Introduction
- Monika Fludernik and Miriam Nandi 1. Otium, Negotium and the Fear of Acedia in the Writings of England's Late Medieval Ricardian Poets
- Gregory M. Sadlek 2. The Dangers and Pleasures of Filling Vacuous Time: Idleness in Early Modern Diaries
- Miriam Nandi 3. The 'Sweet Toyle' of Blissful Bowers: Arresting Idleness in the English Renaissance
- Abigail Scherer 4. Idleness, Apprentices, and Machines in Deloney and Dekker
- Emily Anglin 5. Idleness, Class, and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century
- Sarah Jordan 6. The Performativity of Idleness: Representations and Stagings of Idleness in the Context of Colonialism
- Monika Fludernik 7. Dramas of Idleness: The Comedy of Manners in the Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Oscar Wilde
- Kerstin Fest 8. Idleness and Creativity: Poetic Disquisitions on Idleness in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
- Richard Adelman 9. Versions of Working-Class Idleness: Non-Productivity and the Critique of Victorian Workaholism
- Benjamin Kohlmann 10. Against Busyness: Idling in Victorian and Contemporary Travel Writing
- Barbara Korte 11. Tramping: The Cult of the Vagabond in Early Twentieth-Century England
- Simon Featherstone 12. Englishness, Summer, and the Pastoral of Country Leisure in Twentieth-Century Literature
- Leonie Wanitzek 13. Sociology of Leisure and the Wars of the Lifestyle Gurus
- Ken Roberts Epilogue: Remember that Time is Knowledge, Health and Happiness: On the Mysterious Disappearance of Leisure
- Hartmut Rosa Bibliography Index
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