Worrying : A Literary and Cultural History

"Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History "suggests a unique approach to the inner life" "and its ordinary pains. Francis O'Gorman" "charts the emergence of our contemporary" "idea of worry in the Victorian era and its" "establishment, after the First World War," "as a feature of modernity. For some writers" "between the Wars, worry was the "disease" "of the age."Worrying "examines the everyday kind of" "worry-the fearful, non-pathological, and" "usually hidden questioning about uncertain" "futures. It shows worry to be a natural" "companion in a world where we try to live" "by reason and believe we have the right to" "choose, finding in the worrier a peculiarly" "contemporary sufferer whose mental life" "is not only exceptionally familiar, but also" "deeply strange.Offering an intimately personal account of an all-too-common human experience, and of a word that slips in and out of ordinary conversation so often that it has become invisible in its familiarity, "Worrying "explores how the modern world has

shaped our everyday anxieties. [Publisher's Text]