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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)
The Anxieties of Idleness Idleness in EighteenthCentury British Literature and Culture - The Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Author: Sarah Jordan
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 stat...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780838755235
ISBN-10: 0838755232
Pages: 298
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Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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