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Electronic Book

Author

Knighton, Andrew Lyndon.

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

Imprint

New York : New York University Press, c2012.

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Available to Pittsburg State University patrons only.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	x, 241 p. : ill.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject	Labor productivity -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Leisure -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	9780814748909 (cl : alk. paper)
	9780814789391 (pb : alk. paper)
	9780814749449 (ebook)
	9780814748916 (e-book)