Feeling the Strain - A Cultural History of Stress in Twentieth-Century 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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Jill Kirby is a Lecturer in the School of History of Art, History and Philosophy at the University of Sussex

Summary

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. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Jill Kirby
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781526123299
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-2329-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Social Histories of Medicine; Social Histories of Medicine; Social Histories of Medicine M
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)