Fludernik, Monika
Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in English Literature
1. Introduction
Monika Fludernik, Miriam Nandi
2.
Gregory M. Sadlek
3. The Dangers and Pleasures of Filling Vacuous Time: Idleness in Early Modern Diaries
Miriam Nandi
4. The ‘Sweet Toyle’ of Blissful Bowers: Arresting Idleness in the English Renaissance
Abigail Scherer
5. Idleness, Apprentices and Machines in Deloney and Dekker
Emily Anglin
6. Idleness, Class and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century
Sarah Jordan
7. The Performativity of Idleness: Representations and Stagings of Idleness in the Context of Colonialism
Monika Fludernik
8. Dramas of Idleness: The Comedy of Manners in the Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Oscar Wilde
Kerstin Fest
9. Idleness and Creativity: Poetic Disquisitions on Idleness in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Richard Adelman
10. Versions of Working-Class Idleness: Non-Productivity and the Critique of Victorian Workaholism
Benjamin Kohlmann
11. Against Busyness: Idling in Victorian and Contemporary Travel Writing
Barbara Korte
12. Tramping: The Cult of the Vagabond in Early Twentieth-Century England
Simon Featherstone
13. Englishness, Summer and the Pastoral of Country Leisure in Twentieth-Century Literature
Leonie Wanitzek
14. Sociology of Leisure and the Wars of the Lifestyle Gurus
Ken Roberts
15. Epilogue:
Hartmut Rosa
Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Cultural History, Sociology of Culture, Poetry and Poetics
- Editor
- Fludernik, Monika
- Nandi, Miriam
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2014
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 320 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137404008
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-48714-1