Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind

Patricia Meyer Spacks

Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind
Format
Paperback
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Country
United States
Published
9 May 1996
Pages
304
ISBN
9780226768540

Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind

Patricia Meyer Spacks

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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