Modernism, Feminism and the Culture of Boredom - Hardcover

Pease, Allison

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107027578 ISBN 13: 9781107027572

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Modernism, Feminism and the Culture of Boredom Illustrates how boredom formed an important category of critique against the constraints of women's lives in British modernist literature. Full description

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Review:

'Allison Pease's book is a valuable contribution to the study of the modernist movement. Her joint literary and cultural studies approach allows her to couple history and the study of some of the major texts of modernism.' Alice Braun, Université Paris-Ouest-Nanterre-la Défense

'Pease is a compelling writer and meticulous critic. She makes boredom out to be, in certain instances, a feminist critique of women's enforced social passivity; at other times, a literary device that asserts feminine will; and finally, in Woolf's bleak vision, an invitation to take a philosophical voyage into the inhuman ... Modernism, Feminism, and the Culture of Boredom is a well-written, important contribution to literary studies of affect in the works of modernist women.' Ria Banerjee, Journal of Modern Literature

Book Description:

This book illustrates how the concept of boredom formed an important category of critique against the constraints of women's lives in British modernist literature. Of interest to scholars, researchers and graduates in modernist studies and British literature, it reveals how women's boredom has influenced some of modernism's most important ideas.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1107027578
• ISBN 13: 9781107027572
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 174