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Boredom : the literary history of a state of mind

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.
Print Book, English, 1996
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1996
XIII, [1], 290 stron ; 23 cm.
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