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 radio birdman tshirt 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 is, boredom.Ennui was closely