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Worrying - A Literary and Cultural History (Paperback)
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Worrying - A Literary and Cultural History (Paperback)
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Loot Price R566
Discovery Miles 5 660
You Save R35 (6%)
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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.
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