American Nervousness, 1903
Subtitle: An Anecdotal History
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: February 1993
Place of publication: Ithaca, NY
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780801498787
Subjects: Macroeconomics; United States; Neurasthenia; Economics - Macroeconomics; Psychology; Sociology; Social aspects; Psychological aspects; General; Civilization; 1865-1918; 20th century; History
Table of contents: title: An introduction to nervousness; title: Part 1 : Neurasthenic economies.; title: Making it big : Theodore Dreiser, sex, and success; title: The big stick and the cash value of ideas : Theodore Roosevelt and William James; title: Hamlin Garland's despair and Edgar Saltus's disenchantment; title: Part 2 : Neurasthenic spirituality and other compromises.; title: Frank Norris : nationalism, naturalism, and the supernatural; title: William Dean Howells : Letters Home, Questionable Shapes, and the American Unheimlich; title: Local color, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, and the limits of propriety; title: Part 3 : Neurasthenic representation and the economy of cultural change.; title: Women and economics in the writings of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Edith Wharton; title: The blues and the double consciousness of Henry James and W.E.B. DuBois; title: Concluding anecdotes : the death of the strenuous self