Boredom
Subtitle: a lively history
By: Peter Toohey
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Haven, Conn; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780300181845
Subjects: Boredom in literature; Boredom; History
Notes: Originally published: 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-204) and index.
Table of contents: title: Putting boredom in its place; title: Chronic boredom and the company it keeps; title: Humans, animals, and incarceration; title: The disease that wasteth at noonday; title: Does boredom have a history?; title: The long march back to boredom.