Modernism, feminism and the culture of boredom /
"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 Voyag...
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| Lingua: | English |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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Sommario:
- Machine generated contents note: Preface; 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; Bibliography.