«It is by no means essential to my argument to maintain that boredom came into existence only when it was first named. One can never prove taht a new feeling has entered the world. The emotion Shakespeare's Hippolita experiences may in fact have precidely corresponded to what we understand as boredom, but the language assigned to her emotion differs from the twentieth-century vocabulary of boredom, and I maintain the importance of the difference. If new feelings arguably never manifest themselves, new concepts uniquivocally do. Boredom was in the eighteenth century a new concept, if not necessarily a new event. The emergence of a new concept marks a significant cultural happening because it allows articulation of fresh ways to understand the world.
Patricia Meyer Spacks, Boredom
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