Perambulations: Boredom as Narrative Strategy in Henry James’s The Princess Casamassima

Critics have long considered nineteenth-century literature alongside the affective state of boredom. Looking at lackadaisical characters in Jane Austen’s Emma and Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, ...

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The Explicator
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2026-09-04
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https://doi.org/10.1080/00144940.2026.2729252
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Mind wandering and attention
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Perambulations: Boredom as Narrative Strategy in Henry James’s The Princess Casamassima

C. Henry Smith
The Explicator
Mind wandering and attention
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Perambulations: Boredom as Narrative Strategy in Henry James’s The Princess Casamassima

C. Henry Smith
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Critics have long considered nineteenth-century literature alongside the affective state of boredom. Looking at lackadaisical characters in Jane Austen’s Emma and Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, ...

The Explicator
University of Denver (US)
Openalex Percentile: Top 9%
Mind wandering and attention
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