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Worrying : a literary and cultural history /
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 write...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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, and usually hidden questioning about uncertain futures. It shows worry to be a natural companion in a world where we try to live by reason and believe we have the right t |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 173 pages) : illustration |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-170) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1441143602 9781441143600 9781441181282 1441181288 |