Lee Anna Maynard

Beautiful Boredom

Idleness and Feminine Self-Realization in the Victorian Novel

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores boredom as a possible force for good in the Victorian novel. In Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1847), George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871-72), and Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady (1881), boredom is an important means through which female characters are able to achieve a greater sense of self-awareness. In her discussion of these works, the author examines both the deleterious and restorative aspects of boredom and shows how this subtle theme has continued to be used by more modern authors.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9780786445554
• ISBN-10: 0786445556
• Artikelnr.: 26571752

Autorenporträt

Lee Anna Maynard is a freelance writer and independent scholar in Martinez, Georgia. As an assistant professor of English, she produced articles on adventure and sensation novels.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Preface: Discovering the Boring     
Introduction     
1. Avoiding the Boring: Boredom, Beauty, and Narrative in Jane Eyre     
2. The Complexion of Boredom in Middlemarch     
3. Life on a Grecian Urn: Boredom, Beauty, and Stasis in The Portrait of a
Lady     
4. "The Proper Stuff of Fiction"-A Look Forward     
Postscript: Boredom's Beauty: Victorian Visual Representations of a
Pervasive Mental State     
Works Cited     
Index