The American Studies Association of Turkey Presents: Title: “Dreaming of Lubberland: Idleness and Industry in the British Atlantic World”   A Talk by Assist. Prof. Dr. Daniel Johnson Department of American Culture and Literature Bilkent University Date & Time:  Friday, December 17, 2021, 6:30 P.M. Zoom Meeting Abstract: In the 1760s and 1770s, writers like Jared Eliot and Benjamin Franklin argued that North America was not “Lubberland,” a lazy person’s paradise in which food and other sensual pleasures were always available. Enlightenment authors’ evocation of the fictional Lubberland (also known […]

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