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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) - Hardcover
This book investigates the preoccupation with idleness that haunts the British eighteenth century, arguing that as Great Britain began to define itself as a nation during this period, one important quality it claimed was industriousness. Because this claim was undermined and complicated by many factors, such as leisure's importance to class status, idleness was a subject of intense anxiety. Jordan analyzes how the "idleness" of the working classes, the nonwhite races, and women is figured, and she examines the lives and works of two writers especially obsessed with idleness.
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About the Author:
Sarah Jordan is an associate professor of English at Albion College, where she teaches classes in eighteenth-century British literature and Romanticism. Her articles have appeared in The Age of Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Life.
Review:
"Jordan marshals an impressive array of well-chosen examples from conduct books, tracts, social and religious materials, literature, and secondary sources [...yet] the text reads surprisingly well and is not overburdened by its full scholarly apparatus." (H. Benoist)
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- PublisherUNKNO
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0838755232
- ISBN 13 9780838755235
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages298
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