Boredom : a lively history / Peter Toohey.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Toohey, Peter, 1951-
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2011], ©2011.
Subjects:
Boredom > History.
Boredom.
Boredom in literature.
Verveling.
Physical Description:viii, 211 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Putting boredom in its place
  • Chronic boredom and the company it keeps
  • Humans, animals and incarceration
  • The disease that wasteth at noonday
  • Does boredom have a history?
  • The long march back to boredom.