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Paperback The Leisure Ethic: Work and Play in American Literature, 1840-1940 Book
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ISBN: 0804734348

ISBN13: 9780804734349

The Leisure Ethic: Work and Play in American Literature, 1840-1940

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At the turn of the last century, as routinized industrial labor made a mockery of the gospel of work, Americans increasingly sought fulfillment not on the job but in their leisure activities. This book explores the multiple and, at times, contradictory tensions surrounding this turn to play and examines their impact on nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American literature. Arguing that American writers participated in the ongoing debates...

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Classics Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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