LEADER 03380nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910456469003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-21503-9 010 $a9786613215031 010 $a0-300-17216-8 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300172164 035 $a(CKB)2550000000039459 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24486319 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000521235 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11358155 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000521235 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10517338 035 $a(PQKB)10478836 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420713 035 $a(DE-B1597)485685 035 $a(OCoLC)747037635 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300172164 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420713 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10483620 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL321503 035 $a(OCoLC)923596316 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000039459 100 $a20101001d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBoredom$b[electronic resource] $ea lively history /$fPeter Toohey 210 $aNew Haven [Conn.] $cYale University Press$d2011 215 $aviii, 211 p. $cill 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-14110-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 191-204) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tPreface -- $t1. Putting boredom in its place -- $t2. Chronic boredom and the company it keeps -- $t3. Humans, animals and incarceration -- $t4. The disease that wasteth at noonday -- $t5. Does boredom have a history? -- $t6. The long march back to boredom -- $tReadings -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tIndex 330 $aIn the first book to argue for the benefits of boredom, Peter Toohey dispels the myth that it's simply a childish emotion or an existential malaise like Jean-Paul Sartre's nausea. He shows how boredom is, in fact, one of our most common and constructive emotions and is an essential part of the human experience.This informative and entertaining investigation of boredom-what it is and what it isn't, its uses and its dangers-spans more than 3,000 years of history and takes readers through fascinating neurological and psychological theories of emotion, as well as recent scientific investigations, to illustrate its role in our lives. There are Australian aboriginals and bored Romans, Jeffrey Archer and caged cockatoos, Camus and the early Christians, Dürer and Degas. Toohey also explores the important role that boredom plays in popular and highbrow culture and how over the centuries it has proven to be a stimulus for art and literature.Toohey shows that boredom is a universal emotion experienced by humans throughout history and he explains its place, and value, in today's world. Boredom: A Lively History is vital reading for anyone interested in what goes on when supposedly nothing happens. 606 $aBoredom$xHistory 606 $aBoredom 606 $aBoredom in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aBoredom$xHistory. 615 0$aBoredom. 615 0$aBoredom in literature. 676 $a152.4 700 $aToohey$b Peter$f1951-$0609081 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456469003321 996 $aBoredom$92473612 997 $aUNINA