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Boredom: The Literary History Of A State Of Mind
Author: Spacks, Patricia Meyer
Hardback; Book
304 pages
Published: May 1996
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226768546

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.This text, using examples ranging from Samuel Johnson and Jane Austen to Donald Barthelme and Anita Brookner, examines the influence that the concept of boredom exerts on the literary imagination.



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