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This chapter originated from talks Michael Greaney delivered at two Hubbub events: ‘Sloth: What’s in a Name?’ and the ‘Science and Politics of Laziness’, which took place at London Zoo and Wellcome Collection, respectively. Here, Michael draws on literary history, cultural associations and the poetic resonances of the concept of sloth, and considers laziness and inactivity from a literary perspective.
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Diski, Jenny. On Trying to Keep Still. London: Virago, 2007.
Pynchon, Thomas. ‘The Deadly Sins/Sloth: Nearer My Couch to Thee’. The New York Times Book Review, 6 June 1993.
Rushdie, Salman. ‘Notes on Sloth from Saligia to Oblomov’. Granta 109 (2009): 67–80.
Taylor, Gabriele. Deadly Vices. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006.
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Greaney, M. (2016). Laziness: A Literary-Historical Perspective. In: Callard, F., Staines, K., Wilkes, J. (eds) The Restless Compendium . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45264-7_22
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