Idleness, indolence and leisure in English literature / edited by Monika Fludernik, Miriam Nandi.

'Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease' (Benjamin Franklin). Such negative evaluations of idleness and their contrary, positive reevaluations, as in Cyril Connolly's 'Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present&#...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors:	Fludernik, Monika (Editor), Nandi, Miriam (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Subjects:	Laziness in literature. English literature > History and criticism. English literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.