Title Modernism, feminism and the culture of boredom / Allison Pease

Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource Contents 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 Summary "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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Boredom in literature. Women in literature. Modernism (Literature) Feminism and literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Gay & Lesbian. Boredom in literature Feminism and literature Modernism (Literature) Women in literature Englisch Roman Frau Motiv Langeweile Motiv Genre/Form dissertations. Academic theses Academic theses. Thèses et écrits académiques. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781139526524 1139526529 9781139226493 1139226495 9781139531191 1139531190 9781283610360 1283610361

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