Killing Time. Ennui in Eighteenth-Century English Culture
The article explores the meanings of ennui in eighteenth-century England. Based on text searches, it proposes that the French term ennui was adopted into everyday usage in England around the mid-century, and was from the 1770s onwards used to signify especially the temporal aspects of the word, that...
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| Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2017-03-01
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| Series: | Journal of Early Modern Studies |
| Online Access: | https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-jems/article/view/7080 |