By examining the popular and vernacular discourse of stress, the book traces the ways in which stress became a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the twentieth century in Britain.
By examining the popular and vernacular discourse of stress, the book traces the ways in which stress became a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the twentieth century in Britain.
Jill Kirby is a Lecturer in the School of History of Art, History and Philosophy at the University of Sussex
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1 Nerves and the nervous: self-help books in the early decades of the twentieth century 2 Neurotic tendencies: workplace and suburban neurosis in the interwar period 3 'Just Nerves!': civilian nerves in the Second World War 4 Th e great strain: domestic troubles in post-war Britain 5 The democratisation of stress: popular and personal discourse in the 1960s and 1970s 6 The 'ruthless years': burn-out and the paradigm of stress Conclusion Bibliography Index
Introduction 1 Nerves and the nervous: self-help books in the early decades of the twentieth century 2 Neurotic tendencies: workplace and suburban neurosis in the interwar period 3 'Just Nerves!': civilian nerves in the Second World War 4 Th e great strain: domestic troubles in post-war Britain 5 The democratisation of stress: popular and personal discourse in the 1960s and 1970s 6 The 'ruthless years': burn-out and the paradigm of stress Conclusion Bibliography Index
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