Boredom : the literary history of a state of mind

Author(s)

• Spacks, Patricia Ann Meyer

Bibliographic Information

Boredom : the literary history of a state of mind

Patricia Meyer Spacks

University of Chicago Press, 1996, c1995

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-280) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This text offers an explanation of why boredom both haunts and motivates the literary imagination. Moving from Samuel Johnson and Jane Austen to Donald Barthelme and Anita Brookner, the author shows us how we arrived in a postmodern world where boredom is the all-encompassing name we give our discontent.

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Details

• NCID: BA28379718
• ISBN:
  • 0226768546
• LCCN: 94017109
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Chicago
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 290 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC8 : 930.26
  • LCC : PR408.B67
  • DC20 : 820.9/353
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English literature -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Boredom in literature
  • LCSH : Boredom -- History