Jill Kirby

Feeling the strain

A cultural history of stress in twentieth-century Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 477g
• ISBN-13: 9781526123299
• ISBN-10: 1526123290
• Artikelnr.: 55915143

Autorenporträt

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