The Anxieties of Idleness: Idleness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture

by Sarah Jordan

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611481686
• ISBN13: 9781611481686
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"