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Fear, phobia and the Victorian psyche
- Abstract:
- Carl Westphal’s classic paper on ‘Agoraphobia’ of 1871 laid the foundations for the rapid development of work on phobias, fears and obsessions which sprang up in the last decades of the nineteenth century. This essay explores the intersection of medical and literary discourses of pathological fear as they emerged in the latter half of the century, looking particularly at the ways in which psychiatry turned to literature for case studies of phobia and obsession. I consider the work on fear of, amongst others, American psychologist G. Stanley Hall, and the Italian Angelo Mosso, before focusing on the role played by George Borrow’s neglected work, Lavengro (1851) in the development of late nineteenth-century psychiatric models of fear.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1057/978-1-137-55948-7_9
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+ McCann, D
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Oxford college:
- Lincoln College
- Role:
- Editor
+ McKecknie-Mason, C
- Role:
- Editor
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Host title:
- Fear in the Medical and Literary Imagination, Medieval to Modern: Dreadful Passions
- Pages:
- 177–201
- Series:
- Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
- Place of publication:
- London
- Publication date:
- 2018-05-20
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2634-6443
- ISSN:
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2634-6435
- EISBN:
- 9781137559487
- ISBN-10:
- 1137559470
- ISBN-13:
- 9781137559470
- Language:
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English
- Pubs id:
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pubs:995075
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pubs:995075
- Source identifiers:
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995075
- Deposit date:
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2019-09-06
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- Copyright holder:
- Sally Shuttleworth
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Rights statement:
- © 2018 The Author(s)
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the chapter. The final version is available online from Palgrave Macmillan at: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55948-7_9
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