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050 00 $aPR448.U54$bJ67 2003
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100 1 $aJordan, Sarah,$d1958-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002028575
245 14 $aThe anxieties of idleness :$bidleness in eighteenth-century British literature and culture /$cSarah Jordan.
260 $aLewisburg [Pa.] :$bBucknell University Press ;$aLondon ;$aCranbury :$bAssociated University Presses,$c[2003], ©2003.
300 $a298 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aThe Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 276-288) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tIntroduction -- $g2.$tSix Days Shalt They Labor: Idleness and the Laboring Classes -- $g3.$t"Whilst We Beside You But as Cyphers Stand": Idleness and the Ladies -- $g4.$tAn Empire of Degenerated Peoples: Race, Imperialism, and Idleness -- $g5.$t"Driving On the System of Life": Samuel Johnson and Idleness -- $g6.$tUnder the Great Taskmaster's Eye: William Cowper and Idleness -- $g7.$tConclusion.
520 1 $a"The Anxieties of Idleness: Idleness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture investigates the preoccupation with idleness that haunts the British eighteenth century. Sarah Jordan argues that as Great Britain began to define itself as a nation during this period, one important quality it claimed for itself was industriousness. But this claim was undermined and complicated by, among other factors, the importance of leisure to the upholding of class status, thus making idleness a subject of intense anxiety. One result of this anxiety was an increased surveillance of the supposed idleness of marginalized and less powerful members of society: the working classes, the nonwhite races, and women." "In a widely researched and elegantly argued book, Jordan analyzes how idleness is figured in eighteenth-century literature and culture, including both traditional forms of literature and a wide variety of other cultural discourses. At the center of this account, Jordan investigates the lives and works of Johnson, Cowper, Thomson, and many other, lesser known writers. She incorporates their obsession with idleness into a new and lucid theorization of the professionalization of writing and the place of idleness and industry in the larger cultural formation that was eighteenth-century British identity."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102755
650 0 $aUnemployment in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006963
650 0 $aWorking class$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aWorking class writings, English$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113773
650 0 $aUnemployment$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aUnemployed$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aLeisure$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aWorking class in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85073668
650 0 $aUnemployed in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006964
650 0 $aLeisure in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85075928
650 0 $aAnxiety in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85005840
830 0 $aBucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99029165
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy036/2002026056.html
852 00 $bbar$hPR448.U54$iJ67 2003