Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History

by Francis O'Gorman

Book Overview

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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501320327
• ISBN13: 9781501320323
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.4"