Culture of Boredom is a collection of essays by well-known specialists reflecting from philosophical, literary, and artistic perspectives. The goal is to clarif

Illustrates how boredom formed an important category of critique against the constraints of women's lives in British modernist literature.

This study in social and cultural history argues that what the author identifies as "hyperboredom"--the sense that all possibilities are equally valueless--has

In the first book to argue for the benefits of boredom, Peter Toohey dispels the myth that it's simply a childish emotion or an existential malaise like Jean-Pa

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