Idle Threats: Men and the Limits of Productivity in Nineteenth Century America

The Bartleby Industry And Bartleby's Idleness -- Repose : The Expression And Experience Of The Circulatory Sublime -- The Line Of Productiveness : Fear At The Frontiers -- Vital Reserves Revisited : The Energies Of The Social Body -- Conclusion : Idle Thoughts And Useless Knowledge In The American Renaissance, And Beyond. Andrew Lyndon Knighton. Includes Bibliographical References ( P. 181-231) And Index.