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.