Worrying

A Literary and Cultural History

Professor Francis O'Gorman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2016
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-2032-3 (ISBN)

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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, 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 to choose, finding in the worrier a peculiarly contemporary sufferer whose mental life is not only exceptionally familiar, but also deeply strange.

Offering an intimately personal account of an all-too-common human experience, and of a word that slips in and out of ordinary conversation so often that it has become invisible in its familiarity, Worrying explores how the modern world has shaped our everyday anxieties.

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 memoir, Forgetfulness (2016). He is a Professor in the School of English at the University of Leeds, UK.

Preface to the paperback edition
Preface to the original edition

1. “But woe is me, you are sick of late:” a short history of worry
2. “O day and night, but this is wondrous strange:” managing worry
3. “The time is out of joint:” a long history of worry
4. “Accept distracted thanks:” making the best of worry

Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.08.2016
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	280 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-5013-2032-7 / 1501320327
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-2032-3 / 9781501320323
Zustand	Neuware