Leisure Ethic: Work and Play in American Literature, 1840-1940

Author/Contributor(s):	Gleason, William a
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	01/01/1999
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

This 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.