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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.

Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind

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    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 01/06/1996
    ISBN13: 9780226768540, 978-0226768540
    ISBN10: 0226768546

    Number of Pages: 304

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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    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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