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008			120406s2012 nyua b 001 0 eng
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020			_a9781107027572 (hardback)
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050	0	0	_aPN56.B7 _bP43 2012
082	0	0	_a809.93353 _223 _bPEM
100	1		_aPease, Allison.
245	1	0	_aModernism, feminism and the culture of boredom / _cAllison Pease.
260			_aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2012.
300			_axiii, 159 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
365			_aGBP _b55.46
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	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.
520			_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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aBoredom in literature.
650		0	_aWomen in literature.
650		0	_aModernism (Literature)
650		0	_aFeminism and literature.
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors _2bisacsh.
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