Boredom : a lively history - TOOHEY (New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2011)
In 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
Keywords: Boredom in literature; Boredom