Anxious Times explores perceptions of the pressures of modern life and their impact on bodily and mental health in nineteenth-century Britain. Drawing on both specialist and popular material, the authors consider anxieties surrounding the potentially detrimental impact of new technologies, changing work and leisure practices, and evolving cultural pressures and expectations. Explorations of these concerns range from developments in occupational and public health to fictional speculations as to what lies ahead for human beings once they become, literally, a bundle of nerves.
| ISBN: | 9780822945512 |
| Publication date: | 28th May 2019 |
| Author: | Amelia Bonea, Melissa Dickson, Sally Shuttleworth, Jennifer Wallis |
| Publisher: | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 277 pages |
| Series: | Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century |
| Genres: |
European history History and Archaeology Medical sociology History of medicine |