Nihilistic Femininity in the Early Twentieth Century: Allison Pease's Modernism, Feminism, and the Culture of Boredom

In Modernism, Feminism, and the Culture of Boredom, Allison Pease examines three novels by May Sinclair, the Pilgrimage sequence by Dorothy Richardson, and The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf as notable examples of women's boredom in modernism. She shows that in these works, boredom is a marker fo...

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Published in:Journal of Modern Literature 2015-03, Vol.38 (3), p.119-123
Main Author: Banerjee, Ria
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Boredom
Femininity
Feminism
Feminist literary criticism
Forster, E M (1879-1970)
Lawrence, D H (1885-1930)
Literary devices
Literary modernism
Modernism
Novels
Pilgrimages
Reading
Unconventional Uses of Modernist Aesthetics and Sociability
Women
Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941)
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Summary:In Modernism, Feminism, and the Culture of Boredom, Allison Pease examines three novels by May Sinclair, the Pilgrimage sequence by Dorothy Richardson, and The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf as notable examples of women's boredom in modernism. She shows that in these works, boredom is a marker for a feminist critique of women's enforced social passivity. It can also be read a literary device that asserts feminine will. In Woolf 's bleak vision, boredom leads to a philosophical voyage into the inhuman.
ISSN:0022-281X
1529-1464
DOI:10.2979/jmodelite.38.3.119