Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History

by Francis O'Gorman

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Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History suggests a unique approach to the inner life and its ordinary pains. Francis O'Gorman charts the emergence of our contemporary idea of worry in the Victorian era and its establishment, after the First World War, as a feature of modernity. For some writers between the Wars, worry was the "disease of the age."

Worrying examines the everyday kind of worry-the fearful, non-pathological,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:144115129X

ISBN13:9781441151292

Release Date:May 2015

Publisher:Bloomsbury Academic

Length:192 Pages

Weight:0.30 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.7" x 8.7"

Related Subjects

Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Philosophy Psychology

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