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Anxious Times
Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Amelia Bonea, Melissa Dickson, Sally Shuttleworth, and Jennifer Wallis
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019

Much like the Information Age of the twenty-first century, the Industrial Age was a period of great social changes brought about by rapid industrialization and urbanization, speed of travel, and global communications. The literature, medicine, science, and popular journalism of the nineteenth century attempted to diagnose problems of the mind and body that such drastic transformations were thought to generate: a range of conditions or “diseases of modernity” resulting from specific changes in the social and physical environment. The alarmist rhetoric of newspapers and popular periodicals, advertising various “neurotic remedies,” in turn inspired a new class of physicians and quack medical practices devoted to the treatment and perpetuation of such conditions.

Anxious Times examines perceptions of the pressures of modern life and their impact on bodily and mental health in nineteenth-century Britain. The authors explore anxieties stemming from the potentially harmful impact of new technologies, changing work and leisure practices, and evolving cultural pressures and expectations within rapidly changing external environments. Their work reveals how an earlier age confronted the challenges of seemingly unprecedented change, and diagnosed transformations in both the culture of the era and the life of the mind.
 

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The Creighton Century, 1907–2007
Edited by David Bates, Jennifer Wallis, and Jane Winters
University of London Press, 2020
An edited collection of classic lectures from acclaimed historians.
 
The Creighton Century, 1907–2007 offers a selection of ten classic lectures on history from the first hundred years of the University of London’s prestigious Creighton Lecture series.

This volume offers a chance to revisit some of the great lectures of our time, including previously unpublished lectures by R. H. Tawney, Lucy Sutherland, Donald Coleman, Eric Hobsbawm, and Keith Thomas, published here with commentaries by Virginia Berridge, Justin Champion, Julian Hoppit, and Jinty Nelson, among others. This volume provides a fascinating insight into the development of the discipline of history over the twentieth and early twenty-first century, with lectures on the meaning of truth and modern mythologies, revealing some significant changes in approach and emphasis as well as some surprising continuities.
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The Creighton Century, 1907-2007
Edited by David Bates, Jennifer Wallis, and Jane Winters
University of London Press, 2009


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