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  title info:
    title: Beautiful boredom
    sub title: idleness and feminine self-realization in the Victorian novel
  name:
    name part: Maynard, Lee Anna
    name part: 1973-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ncu
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 190 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: "Boredom in these works is an important means through which female characters are able to achieve a greater sense of self-awareness. 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"--Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: Avoiding the boring : boredom, beauty, and narrative in Jane Eyre -- The complexion of boredom in Middlemarch -- Life on a Grecian urn : boredom, beauty, and stasis in the Portrait of a lady -- "The proper stuff of fiction"--a look forward -- Postscript : boredom's beauty : Victorian visual representations of a pervasive mental state.
  note: Lee Anna Maynard.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: English fiction
    temporal: 19th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Boredom in literature
  subject:
    topic: Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature
  classification: PR878.B66 M39 2009
  classification: 823/.809353
  identifier: 9780786445554 (pbk.: alk. paper)
  identifier: 0786445556 (pbk.: alk. paper)
  identifier: 2009029647
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 090728
    record change date: 20151113120717.0
    record identifier: in00002527762