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Feeling the Strain

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Feeling the Strain

By Jill Kirby

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About the book

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...Show more

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ISBN

9781526123299

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published year

2019

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Feeling the Strain

Format

Hardcover

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