Idle Threats : Men and the Limits of Productivity in Nineteenth Century America / / Andrew Lyndon Knighton |
Autore | Knighton Andrew Lyndon |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2012] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
Disciplina | 331.118097309034 |
Collana | America and the Long 19th Century |
Soggetto topico |
Leisure - United States - History - 19th century
Labor productivity - United States - History - 19th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8147-4891-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Bartleby Industry and Bartleby’s Idleness -- 2. Repose -- 3. The Line of Productiveness -- 4. Vital Reserves Revisited -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910480238803321 |
Knighton Andrew Lyndon | ||
New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2012] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Idle Threats : Men and the Limits of Productivity in Nineteenth Century America / / Andrew Lyndon Knighton |
Autore | Knighton Andrew Lyndon |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2012] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
Disciplina | 331.118097309034 |
Collana | America and the Long 19th Century |
Soggetto topico |
Leisure - United States - History - 19th century
Labor productivity - United States - History - 19th century |
ISBN | 0-8147-4891-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Bartleby Industry and Bartleby’s Idleness -- 2. Repose -- 3. The Line of Productiveness -- 4. Vital Reserves Revisited -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785970303321 |
Knighton Andrew Lyndon | ||
New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2012] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Idle threats : men and the limits of productivity in 19th-Century America / / Andrew Lyndon Knighton |
Autore | Knighton Andrew Lyndon |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
Disciplina | 331.11/8097309034 |
Collana | America and the Long 19th Century |
Soggetto topico |
Labor productivity - United States - History - 19th century
Leisure - United States - History - 19th century |
ISBN | 0-8147-4891-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814583203321 |
Knighton Andrew Lyndon | ||
New York, : New York University Press, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Laboring to Play [[electronic resource] ] : Home Entertainment and the Spectacle of Middle-Class Cultural Life, 1850-1920 / / Melanie Dawson |
Autore | Dawson Melanie <1967-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (270 p.) |
Disciplina |
790.1
790.1/0973/09034 790.10973 790.1097309034 |
Soggetto topico |
Middle class - Recreation - United States - History - 19th century
Leisure - United States - History - 19th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8173-8733-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Labor, leisure, and the scope of ungenteel play -- Dramatic regression : the borrowed pleasures and privileges of youth -- The social body and the severed head : the cultural work of grotesque play -- Skills rewarded : women's lives transformed through entertainment -- Staging disaster : turn-of-the-century entertainment scenes and the failure of personal transformation -- Old games, new narratives, and the specter of a generational divide -- Imagined unity : entertainment's communal spectacles and shared histories. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453730503321 |
Dawson Melanie <1967-> | ||
Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Laboring to Play [[electronic resource] ] : Home Entertainment and the Spectacle of Middle-Class Cultural Life, 1850-1920 / / Melanie Dawson |
Autore | Dawson Melanie <1967-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (270 p.) |
Disciplina |
790.1
790.1/0973/09034 790.10973 790.1097309034 |
Soggetto topico |
Middle class - Recreation - United States - History - 19th century
Leisure - United States - History - 19th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8173-8733-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Labor, leisure, and the scope of ungenteel play -- Dramatic regression : the borrowed pleasures and privileges of youth -- The social body and the severed head : the cultural work of grotesque play -- Skills rewarded : women's lives transformed through entertainment -- Staging disaster : turn-of-the-century entertainment scenes and the failure of personal transformation -- Old games, new narratives, and the specter of a generational divide -- Imagined unity : entertainment's communal spectacles and shared histories. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790893403321 |
Dawson Melanie <1967-> | ||
Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Laboring to Play [[electronic resource] ] : Home Entertainment and the Spectacle of Middle-Class Cultural Life, 1850-1920 / / Melanie Dawson |
Autore | Dawson Melanie <1967-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (270 p.) |
Disciplina |
790.1
790.1/0973/09034 790.10973 790.1097309034 |
Soggetto topico |
Middle class - Recreation - United States - History - 19th century
Leisure - United States - History - 19th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8173-8733-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Labor, leisure, and the scope of ungenteel play -- Dramatic regression : the borrowed pleasures and privileges of youth -- The social body and the severed head : the cultural work of grotesque play -- Skills rewarded : women's lives transformed through entertainment -- Staging disaster : turn-of-the-century entertainment scenes and the failure of personal transformation -- Old games, new narratives, and the specter of a generational divide -- Imagined unity : entertainment's communal spectacles and shared histories. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813979303321 |
Dawson Melanie <1967-> | ||
Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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