Patricia Meyer Spacks

Patricia Meyer Spacks

Patricia Meyer Spacks appears on this site as literary scholar and author of Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind, published in 1995.

Who they are

The work of Patricia Meyer Spacks reaches this site through the book listed below. On this site the name is tied to Boredom.

Key papers

Spacks, P. M. Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind.

Key ideas

Boredom: the discomfort of wanting engagement and not finding it, which the commentary separates from finding thought unpleasant


Sources

  1. Spacks, P. M. Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind.