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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Bloomsbury USA Academic
Publication date September 8, 2016
Pages 192
Binding Paperback
Edition Reprint
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9781501320323
ISBN-10 1501320327
Dimensions 0 by 5.50 by 8.50 in.
Original list price $14.95
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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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Hardcover
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from Bloomsbury USA Academic (May 21, 2015)
9781441151292 | details & prices | 173 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $20.00
Paperback
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Reprint edition from Bloomsbury USA Academic (September 8, 2016)
9781501320323 | details & prices | 192 pages | List price $14.95
About: Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History suggests a unique approach to the inner life and its ordinary pains.
With Kathleen Carrol | from Harlequin Books (May 1, 1986); titled "Angel's Walk"
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This edition also contains Angel''s Walk

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