Worrying

<i>Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History</i>suggests a unique approach to the inner life<i></i>and its ordinary pains. Francis O'Gorman<i></i>charts the emergence of our contemporary<i></i>idea of worry in the Victorian era and its<i></i>establishment after the First World War <i></i>as a feature of modernity. For some writers<i></i>between the Wars worry was the disease<i></i>of the age.<i><br/><br/>Worrying</i>examines the everyday kind of<i></i>worry-the fearful non-pathological and<i></i>usually hidden questioning about uncertain<i></i>futures. It shows worry to be a natural<i></i>companion in a world where we try to live<i></i>by reason and believe we have the right to<i></i>choose finding in the worrier a peculiarly<i></i>contemporary sufferer whose mental life<i></i>is not only exceptionally familiar but also<i></i>deeply strange.<br/><br/>Offering an intimately personal account of an all-too-common human experience and of a word that slips in and out of ordinary conversation so often that it has become invisible in its familiarity <i>Worrying</i>explores how the modern world has shaped our everyday anxieties.