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Chapter 2 - Political Economy and the Logic of Idleness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 July 2018

Richard Adelman
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University of Sussex
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Keats’s juxtaposition of idleness’s paradoxical and powerful sociability with the more conventional interactions of the worker sets economic activity against aesthetic inactivity in no uncertain terms. A society built on economic relations is cast as limiting in terms of the interactions between individuals it allows for and the individual development it promotes. In the case of Keats, this opposition between the economic and the aesthetic clearly extends to matters of style.

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Print publication year: 2018

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