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Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in English Literature

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Editors:
  1. Monika Fludernik

    1. University of Freiburg, Germany

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  2. Miriam Nandi

    1. University of Freiburg, Germany

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Monika Fludernik, Miriam Nandi
    Pages 1-16

  3. Otium, Negotium, and the Fear of Acedia in the Writings of England’s Late Medieval Ricardian Poets

    • Gregory M. Sadlek
    Pages 17-39

  4. The Dangers and Pleasures of Filling Vacuous Time: Idleness in Early Modern Diaries

    • Miriam Nandi
    Pages 40-59

  5. The ‘Sweet Toyle’ of Blissful Bowers: Arresting Idleness in the English Renaissance

    • Abigail Scherer
    Pages 60-85

  6. Idleness, Apprentices and Machines in Deloney and Dekker

    • Emily Anglin
    Pages 86-106

  7. Idleness, Class and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century

    • Sarah Jordan
    Pages 107-128

  8. The Performativity of Idleness: Representations and Stagings of Idleness in the Context of Colonialism

    • Monika Fludernik
    Pages 129-153

  9. Dramas of Idleness: The Comedy of Manners in the Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Oscar Wilde

    • Kerstin Fest
    Pages 154-173

  10. Idleness and Creativity: Poetic Disquisitions on Idleness in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

    • Richard Adelman
    Pages 174-194

  11. Versions of Working-Class Idleness: Non-Productivity and the Critique of Victorian Workaholism

    • Benjamin Kohlmann
    Pages 195-214

  12. Against Busyness: Idling in Victorian and Contemporary Travel Writing

    • Barbara Korte
    Pages 215-234

  13. Tramping: The Cult of the Vagabond in Early Twentieth-Century England

    • Simon Featherstone
    Pages 235-251

  14. Englishness, Summer and the Pastoral of Country Leisure in Twentieth-Century Literature

    • Leonie Wanitzek
    Pages 252-272

  15. Sociology of Leisure and the Wars of the Lifestyle Gurus

    • Ken Roberts
    Pages 273-292

  16. Epilogue: Remember that Time Is Knowledge, Health and Happiness: On the Mysterious Disappearance of Leisure

    • Hartmut Rosa
    Pages 293-297

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 298-309
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Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in English Literature is the first study to provide transhistorical perspectives and cutting-edge critical analyses of debates concerning idleness in English literature. The topicality of the subject is emphasized by two pieces of sociological analysis.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Freiburg, Germany

    Monika Fludernik, Miriam Nandi

About the editors

Richard Adelman, University of Sussex, UK Emily Anglin, University of Toronto's Victoria College, USA Simon Featherstone, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK Kerstin Fest University of Freiburg, Germany Monika Fludernik, University of Freiburg, Germany Sarah Jordan, Albion College, USA Benjamin Kohlmann, University of Freiburg, Germany Barbara Korte, University of Freiburg, Germany Miriam Nandi, University of Freiburg, Germany Ken Roberts, University of Liverpool, UK Hartmut Rosa, University of Jena, Germany Gregory M. Sadlek, Cleveland State University, USA Abigail Scherer, Nicholls State University, USA Leonie Wanitzek, University of Freiburg, Germany

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