Fear : a cultural history /
"In this book, historian Joanna Bourke covers the landscape of fear over the past two hundred years: from the nineteenth-century dread of being buried alive to the current worry over being able to die when one chooses; from the diagnoses of phobias and anxieties produced by psychotherapists and...
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| Language: | English |
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Emeryville, CA :
Shoemaker Hoard : Distributed by Publishers Group West,
2006
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| Edition: | 1st Shoemaker & Hoard ed |
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Table of Contents:
- Death
- Disasters
- The child
- Nightmares
- Phobias
- Social hysteria
- Combat
- Civilians under attack
- Nuclear threats
- The body
- Strangers
- Introduction : fear
- Afterword to the introduction : the face of fear
- Pt. 1 Worlds of doom
- Introduction
- Ch. 1. Death
- Ch. 2. Disasters
- Afterword to part one : Emotionology
- Pt. 2. Spheres of uncertainty
- Introduction
- Ch. 3. The child
- Ch. 4. Nightmares
- Ch. 5. Phobias
- Afterword to part two : Psychohistory
- Pt. 3. Whorls of irrationality
- Introduction
- Ch. 6. Social hysteria
- Afterword to part three : fear versus anxiety
- Pt. 4. Zones of confrontation
- Introduction
- Ch. 7. Combat
- Ch. 8. Civilians under attack
- Ch. 9. Nuclear threats
- Afterword to part four : narrativity
- Pt. 5. Realms of anxiety
- Introduction
- Ch. 10. The body
- Ch. 11. Strangers
- Afterword to part five : aesthesiology
- Conclusion : terror.
- Introduction : fear
- Afterword to the introduction : the face of fear
- Pt. 1 Worlds of doom
- Introduction
- Ch. 1. Death
- Ch. 2. Disasters
- Afterword to part one : Emotionology
- Pt. 2. Spheres of uncertainty
- Introduction
- Ch. 3. The child
- Ch. 4. Nightmares
- Ch. 5. Phobias
- Afterword to part two : Psychohistory
- Pt. 3. Whorls of irrationality
- Introduction
- Ch. 6. Social hysteria
- Afterword to part three : fear versus anxiety
- Pt. 4. Zones of confrontation
- Introduction
- Ch. 7. Combat
- Ch. 8. Civilians under attack
- Ch. 9. Nuclear threats
- Afterword to part four : narrativity
- Pt. 5. Realms of anxiety
- Introduction
- Ch. 10. The body
- Ch. 11. Strangers
- Afterword to part five : aesthesiology
- Conclusion : terror.