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The Anxieties of Idleness - Idleness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture (Hardcover)
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The Anxieties of Idleness - Idleness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
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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.
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