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- Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815–1900
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815–1900
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Idleness, Moral Consciousness and Sociability
- Chapter 2 Political Economy and the Logic of Idleness
- Chapter 3 The ‘Gospel of Work’
- Chapter 4 Cultural Theory and Aesthetic Failure
- Chapter 5 The Gothicization of Idleness
- Conclusion
- Epilogue Substitutive Satisfaction
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Chapter 3 - The ‘Gospel of Work’
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 July 2018
- Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815–1900
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815–1900
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Idleness, Moral Consciousness and Sociability
- Chapter 2 Political Economy and the Logic of Idleness
- Chapter 3 The ‘Gospel of Work’
- Chapter 4 Cultural Theory and Aesthetic Failure
- Chapter 5 The Gothicization of Idleness
- Conclusion
- Epilogue Substitutive Satisfaction
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Summary
Nineteenth-century political economy’s preoccupation with questions of idleness, culminating in John Stuart Mill’s celebration of a stationary state that fosters passive and aesthetic susceptibilities, is remarkable in the context of that discourse’s history. But Mill’s particular synthesis of the aesthetic and the economic is also noteworthy because it stands in stark opposition to one of the primary currents of nineteenth-century thought outside political economy.
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- Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815–1900 , pp. 81 - 113Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018