Phobia and American Literature, 1705-1937: A Therapeutic History

Contributor(s): McLaughlin, Don James (Author)

ISBN: 9780198945987

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Hardcover

$115.00

Pub Date: November 21, 2025

Lexile Code: 0000

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.83" H x 9.45" L x 6.51" W ( 1.37 lbs) 272 pages

BISAC Categories:

Social Science | Popular Culture | Psychology | Emotions | Cognitive Psychology and Cognition

Series: Oxford Studies in American Literary History

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Description: Phobia and American Literature, 1705-1937: A Therapeutic History tells a neglected, two-century history of phobia's gradual emergence as a variable suffix in medicine, politics, and literature, ready to be appended to an array of objects, situations, and ideas.

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