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The Anxieties of Idleness: Idleness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture (The Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture)

Sarah Jordan

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Description:The Anxieties of Idleness: Idleness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture investigates the preoccupation with idleness that haunts the British eighteenth century. Jordan argues that as Great Britain began to define itself as a nation during this period, one important quality it claimed was industriousness. However, this claim was undermined and complicated by many factors, such as leisure's importance to class status. Thus idleness was a subject of intense anxiety. One result of this anxiety was an increased surveillance of the supposed idleness of those members of society with less power to wield: the working classes, the nonwhite races, and women. Jordan analyzes how the "idleness" of these groups is figured, in traditional literature and in extra-literary works. Idleness was also a concern for writers of the day, as writing became a money-earning profession. Jordan examines the lives and works of two writers especially obsessed with idleness, Samuel Johnson and William Cowper.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Anxieties of Idleness: Idleness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture (The Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture). To get started finding The Anxieties of Idleness: Idleness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture (The Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The Anxieties of Idleness: Idleness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture investigates the preoccupation with idleness that haunts the British eighteenth century. Jordan argues that as Great Britain began to define itself as a nation during this period, one important quality it claimed was industriousness. However, this claim was undermined and complicated by many factors, such as leisure's importance to class status. Thus idleness was a subject of intense anxiety. One result of this anxiety was an increased surveillance of the supposed idleness of those members of society with less power to wield: the working classes, the nonwhite races, and women. Jordan analyzes how the "idleness" of these groups is figured, in traditional literature and in extra-literary works. Idleness was also a concern for writers of the day, as writing became a money-earning profession. Jordan examines the lives and works of two writers especially obsessed with idleness, Samuel Johnson and William Cowper.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Anxieties of Idleness: Idleness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture (The Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture). To get started finding The Anxieties of Idleness: Idleness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture (The Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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