Boredom The Literary History of a State of Mind

Name: Boredom The Literary History of a State of Mind
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ISBN: 9780226768540

ISBN-10: 0226768546

ISBN-13: 9780226768540

Edition: 1996 (Reprint)

Authors: Patricia Meyer Spacks

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Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.89" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Patricia Meyer Spacks is Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English, Emerita, at the University of Virginia.



Acknowledgments



Reading, Writing, and Boredom



Vacuity, Satiety, and the Active Life: Eighteenth-Century Men



The Consciousness of the Dull: Eighteenth-Century Women, Boredom, and Narrative



"Self is a Tiresome Subject": Personal Records of Eighteenth-Century Women Interlude: The Problem of the Interesting



"A Dull Book is Easily Renounced": How the Interesting Turns Boring



The Normalization of Boredom: Nineteenth-Century Women and Their Fictions



Society and Its Discontents: Cultural Contexts of Nineteenth-Century Boredom



The Ethics of Boredom: Modernism and Questions of Value



Cultural Miasma: Postmodern Enlargements of Boredom