Feeling the strain : a cultural history of stress in twentieth-century Britain /

Feeling the strain : a cultural history of stress in twentieth-century Britain /

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 jus...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kirby, Jill (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.
Series:Social histories of medicine.
Subjects:
Stress (Psychology) > Social aspects > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Stress management > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Great Britain > Social conditions > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Nerves and the nervous: self-help books in the early decades of the twentieth century
  • Neurotic tendencies: workplace and suburban neurosis in the interwar period
  • "Just nerves!": civilian nerves in the Second World War
  • The great strain: domestic troubles in post-war Britain
  • The democratisation of stress: popular and personal discourse in the 1960s and 1970s
  • The "ruthless years": burn-out and the paradigm of stress
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.