Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind

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University of Chicago Press, 1995 - 290 ページ
This book offers a witty 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. Her book, anything but boring, gives us new insight into the cultural usefulness—and deep interest—of boredom as a state of mind.

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READING WRITING AND BOREDOM
1
VACUITY SATIETY AND THE ACTIVE LIFE
31
3 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE DULL
60
5 A DULL BOOK IS EASILY RENOUNCED
129
THE NORMALIZATION OF BOREDOM
164
SOCIETY AND ITS DISCONTENTS
191
THE ETHICS OF BOREDOM
218
CULTURAL MIASMA
249
Works Cited
273
Index
281
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Patricia Meyer Spacks is the Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is the author of eleven previous books, including Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century English Novels and Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

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