附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-434) and index.
Introduction -- Part I: Escape, evasion, ambivalence ; 1. Re-creating Walden: Thoreau's economy of work and play ; 2. Old ways, new ways: Anxiety and identity in Roughing It and Life on the Mississippi -- 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 & 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 amd Their Eyes Were Watching God -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
