Modernism, Feminism, and the Culture of Boredom
Pease, Modernism, Feminism, and the Culture of Boredom, Cambridge University Press, 2012, introductory chapter: bore in the tedious sense appears in aristocratic letters of 1766 and 1767; the earliest dictionary-recorded use of the noun boredom is from Dickens, Bleak House, 1852; the modern English experience of boredom dates to the late eighteenth century.
Pease, Modernism, Feminism, and the Culture of Boredom, Cambridge University Press, 2012, introductory chapter: bore in the tedious sense appears in aristocratic letters of 1766 and 1767; the earliest dictionary-recorded use of the noun boredom is from Dickens, Bleak House, 1852; the modern English experience of boredom dates to the late eighteenth century.
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Cambridge University Press. Introductory chapter on the word boredom.