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Thoreau's axe : distraction and discipline in American culture /
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| 자료유형 | E-Book |
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| 개인저자 | Smith, Caleb, 1977-, author. |
| 서명/저자사항 | Thoreau's axe :distraction and discipline in American culture /Caleb Smith. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource (ix, 240 pages) |
| 소장본 주기 | Added to collection customer.56279.3 |
| ISBN | 0691215286 9780691215280 |
| 서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 내용주기 | Introduction: distraction and the disciplines of attention --Part I.From the devil to distraction --Part II.Reform --Part III.Revival --Part IV.Devotion --Afterward: prophets of the attention economy. |
| 요약 | "When did the age of distraction begin? It might seem like a new problem, a symptom of our digital addictions, but distraction was already a source of deep concern in American culture two hundred years ago. As the industrial market economy emerged, nineteenth-century observers saw the signs: Workers were wasting time, daydreaming on the job, and the public's attention was overstimulated by new media and consumer trends. In response, social reformers designed innovative systems of moral training for the masses. Religious leaders organized far-reaching Christian revivals. And spiritual seekers like Henry David Thoreau experimented on themselves, practicing regimens of simplified living and transcendental mysticism. From the solitary confinement cells of the earliest penitentiaries to the shores of Walden Pond, disciplines of attention became the spiritual exercises of a distracted age. Through twenty-eight short passages on reform, religion, and literature from the strange and beautiful archives of this nineteenth-century attention revival, Caleb Smith reads with an eye for both language and power. Disciplines of attention, he argues, often reinforce a morally conservative social order. At the same time, exercising more careful control over our own attention promises to give us some distance from the consumer marketplace-and, today, from the algorithmic manipulations of the online attention economy. Smith writes with vigilance about the history of coercion, but also with guarded hope about practices of attention, including reading itself. From the benefits of attentive reading to the darker side of enforced attention in prisons and reformatories, this book examines distraction as a moral, political, and economic problem with a long and illuminating history"-- |
| 일반주제명 | American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Distraction (Psychology) -- In literature. Discipline -- In literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. COMPUTERS / Social Aspects. American literature. |
| 언어 | 영어 |
| 기타형태 저록 | Print version:Smith, Caleb, 1977-Thoreau's axePrinceton : Princeton University Press, [2023]9780691214771 |
| 대출바로가기 | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3334820 |
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