Leisure Ethic

Work and Play in American Literature, 1840-1940

Szerző: William A. Gleason

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Stanford University Press

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At the turn of the last century, as routinized industrial labor made a mockery of the gospel of work...

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Szerző

William A. Gleason

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

1999

oldal

468

EAN

9780804734349

ISBN

0804734348

Enbook ID

04716880

Kiadó

Stanford University Press

Súly

630

Méretek

152 x 229 x 25

Teljes leírás

At the turn of the last century, as routinized industrial labor made a mockery of the gospel of work, Americans increasingly sought fulfillment not on the job but in their leisure activities. This book explores the multiple and, at times, contradictory tensions surrounding this turn to play and examines their impact on nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American literature. Arguing that American writers participated in the ongoing debates over labor and leisure more strenuously than is commonly understood, the author shows how literary narratives both responded to and helped shape the emerging gospel of play. Richly grounded in social, political, and economic history, this book demonstrates the ways that discussions of leisure engaged the most pressing issues of the age: immigration, women s rights, public health, race relations, mass culture, and perhaps most important, the nature and meaning of work itself. Where turn-of-the-century recreation reformers envisioned play as the revivifying alternative to modern labor s assault on the self, American writers from Henry David Thoreau to Zora Neale Hurston found that vision too deeply indebted to the very system it sought to repair. The fatal flaw of play theory, these writers insisted, was its commitment to an ideology of fair play and teamwork drawn not from the spirit of the playground but from the production- and profit-minded ethos of corporate capitalism.

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