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Boredom: The Literary History Of A State Of Mind

Author: Spacks, Patricia Meyer
Hardback; Book
304 pages
Published: March 1995
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226768538

Investigating boredom's imaginative functions during the last two and a half centuries, Patricia Meyer Spacks reveals the shifting cultural purposes served by this often lamented state.An explanation of why boredom both haunts and motivates the literary imagination. Moving from Samuel Johnson to Donald Barthelme, from Jane Austen to Anita Brookner, Spacks shows us at last how we arrived in a postmodern world where boredom is the all-encompassing name we give our discontent.

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