{"product_id":"the-leisure-ethic-work-and-play-in-american-literature-18401940-9780804734349","title":"The Leisure Ethic Work and Play in American","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis literary and cultural history of the rise of modern leisure shows how American writers from Henry David Thoreau to Zora Neale Hurston both responded to and helped shape19th- and early-20th-century ideas of work and play.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction; Part I. Escape, Evasion, Ambivalence: 1. Re-creating Walden: Thoureau's economy of work and play; 2. Old ways, new ways: anxiety and identity in Roughing It and Life on the Missisippi; Part II. Alternative Articulations: 3. Frontier Fairy Tales: Cahan, Rolvaag, and the resistance to play progressivism; 4. 'Find their Place and Fall in Line': the revisioning of women's work in Herland and Emma McChesney \u0026amp; Co.; Part III. Whose Golden Age?: 5. 'An ideal body to be lived up to': play, display, and the self in The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man and The Great Gatsby; 6. Public space, private lives: recreation and re-creation in An American Tragedy and Native Son; 7. Southern Counterpoint: bodily control and the 'problem' of leisure in Sanctuary and Their Eyes Were Watching God; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index.","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405531816279,"sku":"9780804734349","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804734349.jpg?v=1730492755","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-leisure-ethic-work-and-play-in-american-literature-18401940-9780804734349","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}