The Anxieties of Idleness: Idleness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture

by Sarah Jordan

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The Anxieties of Idleness: Idleness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture investigates the preoccupation with idleness that haunts the British eighteenth century. Sarah Jordan argues that as Great Britain began to define itself as a nation during this period, one important quality it claimed for itself was industriousness. But this claim was undermined and complicated by, among other factors, the importance of leisure to the...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1611481686

ISBN13:9781611481686

Release Date:February 2003

Publisher:Bucknell University Press

Length:298 Pages

Weight:1.40 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"

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