02405cam a22003374a 4500 17245463 BD-DhUL 20170102190010.0 120406s2012 nyua b 001 0 eng 2012012501 9781107027572 (hardback) DLC DLC DLC BD-DhUL pcc PN56.B7 P43 2012 809.93353 23 PEM Pease, Allison. Modernism, feminism and the culture of boredom / Allison Pease. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012. xiii, 159 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. GBP 55.46 Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. "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"-- Provided by publisher. Boredom in literature. Women in literature. Modernism (Literature) Feminism and literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors bisacsh. 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 145628 145628 0 0 ddc 0 809_933530000000000_PEM 0 NFIC 273171 DUL DUL GEN 2017-01-02 Purchased 809.93353 PEM 484658 2017-01-02 1 2017-01-02 BK