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Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History

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Description for Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History Hardback. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBG; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 378.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781441151292
SKU
V9781441151292
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About O
Francis O’Gorman is from English, Irish, and Hungarian families and was educated at the University of Oxford as Organ Scholar of Lady Margaret Hall. He has written or edited twenty books, mostly on English literature, and his many essays discuss literature, mental health, music, and the state of the modern university. His most recent piece of creative non-fiction is a ... Read more

Reviews for Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History
It is 4.06 am. Francis O’Gorman is in bed. His partner and three cats lie fast asleep beside him. But he is awake, worrying. So begins this subtle, exploratory, completely original book.
John Carey
The Sunday Times (Culture Magazine)
An engagingly personal quest to find out “what [worry] means, both for good and bad” … some of ... Read more

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