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02614aam a22003734a 4500 001 A7323BCA6B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 120406s2012 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2012012501 020 $a 1107027578 (hardback) 020 $a 9781107027572 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)785390183 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d BWX $d IUL $d IG# $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN56 B7 P43 2012 084 $a LIT004290 $2 bisacsh 100 00 $a Pease, Allison. 245 10 $a Modernism, feminism and the culture of boredom / $c Allison Pease. 260 $a New York : $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2012. 300 $a xiii, 159 p. : $b ill. ; $c 24 cm. 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 650 0 $a Boredom in literature. 650 0 $a Women in literature. 650 0 $a Modernism (Literature) 650 0 $a Feminism and literature. 856 42 $3 Cover image $u http://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/27572/cover/9781107027572.jpg 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180126050418.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826063329.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A7323BCA6B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search