The Experience of Idling in Victorian Travel Texts, 1850–1901

1. Introduction.- 2. A Brief Intellectual and Semantic History of 'Idleness'.- 3. Sensibilities of Seeing.- 4. The Dangers of Idle Time.- 5. Genre and Gender.- 6. The Victorian Idler's Late-Romantic Mentality.- 7. Idleness and Idling in Anna Mary Howitt's An Art Student in Munich  (1853).- 8. W. H. Hudson, his Thinking Machine, and Idle Days in Patagonia  (1893).- 9. Jerome K. Jerome's Humoristic Idleness in Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog!)  (1889): Lightness and Longing.- 10. Margaret Fountaine's Diary Accounts of her Restless Idling and Butterflying.- 11. George Gissing's By The Ionian Sea  (1901) as a Paradise of Idleness.- 12. Coda.