Beautiful Boredom
Idleness and Feminine Self-Realization in the Victorian Novel
Samenvatting
Explores boredom as a possible force for good in the Victorian novel. This book discusses Charlotte Bronte's ""Jane Eyre"" (1847), George Eliot's ""Middlemarch"" (1871-72), and Henry James' ""The Portrait of a Lady"" (1881). It examines the deleterious and restorative aspects of boredom.

