Literary analysis uncovers boredom as an active narrative strategy in nineteenth-century novels, suggesting that physical wandering regulates aesthetic pacing.
Critics have long considered nineteenth-century literature alongside the affective state of boredom. Looking at lackadaisical characters in Jane Austen’s Emma and Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, ...
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