Modernism, feminism and the culture of boredom / Allison Pease.
"Bored women populate many of the most celebrated works of British modernist literature. Whether in popular offerings such as Robert Hitchens's The Garden of Allah, the esteemed middlebrow novels of May Sinclair or H.G. Wells, or now-canonized works such as Virginia Woolf's The Voyage...
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2012.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Boredom and bored women in the early twentieth century
- 2. Overcoming nihilism: male-authored female boredom
- 3. May Sinclair, feminism, and boredom
- 4. Boredom as social system in Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage
- 5. Boredom and individualism in Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out
- Conclusion.