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 Lecturer in History 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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