02332nam a22003014a 450000100060000000300090000600500170001500800410003201000170007302000290009004000280011904200080014705000220015508200180017710000200019524500690021526000510028430000350033550400510037050503540042152010140077565000270178965000250181665000270184165000290186865000490189785600840194628938BD-DhAAL20150330100704.0150330s2012    nyua     b    001 0 eng    a  2012012501  a9781107027572 (hardback)  aDLCcDLCdDLCdBD-DhAAL  apcc00aPN56.B7bP43 201200a809.933532231 aPease, Allison.10aModernism, feminism and the culture of boredom /cAllison Pease.  aNew York :bCambridge University Press,c2012.  axiii, 159 p. :bill. ;c24 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.8 aMachine 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.  a"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 Out, women's boredom frequently serves as narrative impetus, antagonist and climax. In this book, Allison Pease explains how the changing meaning of boredom reshapes our understanding of modernist narrative techniques, feminism's struggle to define women as individuals and male modernists' preoccupation with female sexuality. To this end, Pease characterizes boredom as an important category of critique against the constraints of women's lives, arguing that such critique surfaces in modernist fiction in an undeniably gendered way. Engaging with a wide variety of well- and lesser-known modernist writers, Pease's study will appeal especially to researchers and graduates in modernist studies and British literature"-- 0aBoredom in literature. 0aWomen in literature. 0aModernism (Literature) 0aFeminism and literature. 7aLITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors2bisacsh.423Cover imageuhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/27572/cover/9781107027572.jpg