Book ID: CBB660922086

Feeling the Strain: A Cultural History of Stress in Twentieth-Century Britain (2019)

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Kirby, Jill (Author)


Manchester University Press


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 272
Language: English

Examining the popular discourse of nerves and stress, this book provides a historical account of how ordinary Britons understood, explained and coped with the pressures and strains of daily life during the twentieth century. It traces the popular, vernacular discourse of stress, illuminating not just how stress was known, but the ways in which that knowledge was produced. Taking a cultural approach, the book focuses on contemporary popular understandings, revealing continuity of ideas about work, mental health, status, gender and individual weakness, as well as the changing socio-economic contexts that enabled stress to become a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the century. With accounts from sufferers, families and colleagues it also offers insight into self-help literature, the meanings of work and changing dynamics of domestic life, delivering a complementary perspective to medical histories of stress.

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Authors & Contributors
Jones, Edgar
Crook, Sarah
Connor Cummings
Aleksandra Loewenau
Vandendriessche, Joris
Young, Allan
Concepts
Psychiatry
Stress disorders
Mental disorders and diseases
Medicine and the military; medicine in war
Psychology
Hospitals and clinics
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
19th century
Modern
21st century
Places
Great Britain
Germany
France
Belgium
Institutions
Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Tavistock Clinic
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