Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind

Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind

by Patricia Meyer Spacks
  • List Price: $41.00
  • ISBN-10: 0226768538
  • ISBN-13: 9780226768533
  • Edition: 1st
  • Type: Hardcover
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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This book offers a witty explanation of why boredom both haunts and motivates the literary imagination. Moving from Samuel Johnson to Donald Barthelme,... Read more

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