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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.
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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.
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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.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Modernism, Feminism and the Culture of Boredom?
Biography, Literature and Literary studies > Literature: history and criticism > Literary studies: general > Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
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Who is/are the Author/s of the book Modernism, Feminism and the Culture of Boredom?
Alison Pease
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Modernism, Feminism and the Culture of Boredom is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781107027572)