American Nervousness 1903
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Author | : Tom Lutz |
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Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
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Paper edition of a 1991 study. The subject is "a cultural complex--a disease called neurasthenia" (from the preface), examined at a specific historical "moment"--1903. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Tom Lutz |
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Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 1992 |
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Author | : Thomas Michael Lutz |
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Total Pages | : 844 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Social ecology |
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Author | : Charles Andrew Braun |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1967 |
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Author | : Tim Armstrong |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1996-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780814706589 |
Contributors from areas including history, literary and cultural studies, and film studies look at the body as a cultural construct configured by politics, gender, racial categories, fears of pollution, and commercial forces that exploit and regulate it, from the 19th century to the present. They examine subjects such as sailor tattoos, maritime cannibalism, birth control, anorexia, boxing, cyberpunk, and plastic surgery. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Justine S. Murison |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2011-04-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139497634 |
For much of the nineteenth century, the nervous system was a medical mystery, inspiring scientific studies and exciting great public interest. Because of this widespread fascination, the nerves came to explain the means by which mind and body related to each other. By the 1830s, the nervous system helped Americans express the consequences on the body, and for society, of major historical changes. Literary writers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne and Harriet Beecher Stowe, used the nerves as a metaphor to re-imagine the role of the self amidst political, social and religious tumults, including debates about slavery and the revivals of the Second Great Awakening. Representing the 'romance' of the nervous system and its cultural impact thoughtfully and, at times, critically, the fictional experiments of this century helped construct and explore a neurological vision of the body and mind. Murison explains the impact of neurological medicine on nineteenth-century literature and culture.
Author | : Susan Harris Smith |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2007-07-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230605028 |
This book examines over 125 American, English, Irish and Anglo-Indian plays by 70 dramatists which were published in 14 American general interest periodicals aimed at the middle-class reader and consumer.
Author | : Dana Becker |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2005-02 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 0814799361 |
Her power; today, her power is said to reside in her ability to ̀€̀€relate'' to others or to take better care of herself so that she can take care of others. Dana Becker argues that ideas like empowerment perpetuate the myth that many of the problems women have are medical rather than societal; personal rather than political. From mesmerism to psychotherapy to the Oprah Winfrey Show, women have gleaned ideas about who they are as psychological beings. Becker questions what women have had to.
Author | : Peter N. Stearns |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 547 |
Release | : 1994-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814771033 |
Cool. The concept has distinctly American qualities and it permeates almost every aspect of contemporary American culture. From Kool cigarettes and the Peanuts cartoon's Joe Cool to West Side Story (Keep cool, boy.) and urban slang (Be cool. Chill out.), the idea of cool, in its many manifestations, has seized a central place in our vocabulary. Where did this preoccupation with cool come from? How was Victorian culture, seemingly so ensconced, replaced with the current emotional status quo? From whence came American Cool? These are the questions Peter Stearns seeks to answer in this timely and engaging volume. American Cool focuses extensively on the transition decades, from the erosion of Victorianism in the 1920s to the solidification of a cool culture in the 1960s. Beyond describing the characteristics of the new directions and how they altered or amended earlier standards, the book seeks to explain why the change occured. It then assesses some of the outcomes and longer-range consequences of this transformation.
Author | : Susan Currell |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Culture in motion pictures |
ISBN | : 082141691X |