Beautiful Boredom: Idleness and Feminine Self-Realization in by Lee Anna Maynard

By Lee Anna Maynard

This quantity explores boredom as a potential strength for solid within the Victorian novel. In Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847), George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1871-72), and Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady (1881), boredom is a vital capability by which woman characters may be able to in attaining a better experience of self-awareness. In her dialogue of those works, the writer examines either the deleterious and restorative facets of boredom and indicates how this sophisticated topic has persevered for use via extra smooth authors.

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