{"product_id":"9781441181282","title":"Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History","description":"\u003ci\u003eWorrying: A Literary and Cultural History \u003c\/i\u003esuggests a unique approach to the inner life\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand its ordinary pains. Francis O'Gorman\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003echarts the emergence of our contemporary\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eidea of worry in the Victorian era and its\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eestablishment, after the First World War,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eas a feature of modernity. For some writers\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ebetween the Wars, worry was the \"disease\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eof the age.”\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWorrying \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the everyday kind of\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eworry-the fearful, non-pathological, and\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eusually hidden questioning about uncertain\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003efutures. It shows worry to be a natural\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ecompanion in a world where we try to live\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eby reason and believe we have the right to\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003echoose, finding in the worrier a peculiarly\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003econtemporary sufferer whose mental life\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis not only exceptionally familiar, but also\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003edeeply strange.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffering 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, \u003ci\u003eWorrying \u003c\/i\u003eexplores how the modern world has shaped our everyday anxieties.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124050936048,"sku":"9781441181282","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781441181282_p0.jpg?v=1763798230","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781441181282","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}