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By Andrew Lyndon Knighton

The nineteenth century witnessed an explosion of writing approximately unproductivity, with the exploits of varied idlers, loafers, and “gentlemen of refinement” shooting the mind's eye o fa state that was once deeply ambivalent approximately its paintings ethic. Idle Threats records this American obsession with unproductivity and its potentials, whereas delivering a proof of the profound importance of idle practices for literary and cultural production.
 
While this fascination with unproductivity memorably outlined literary characters from Rip Van Winkle to Bartleby to George Hurstwood, it additionally reverberated deeply in the course of the complete tradition, either as a seductive excellent and as a in all probability corrosive hazard to upright, industrious American males. Drawing on a powerful array of archival fabric and multifaceted literary and cultural resources, Idle Threats connects the query of unproductivity to different discourses pertaining to manhood, the price of paintings, the attract of the frontier, the usefulness of knowledge,the that means of individuality, and the adventure of time, area, and historical past. Andrew Lyndon Knighton bargains a brand new mind set in regards to the principally unacknowledged “productivity of the unproductive,” revealing the incalculable and occasionally mind-blowing ways that American modernity remodeled the connection among matters and that that's so much intimate to them: their very own task.

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