Name: Phobia and American Literature, 1705–1937. A Therapeutic History
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Author: Don James McLaughlin
ISBN: 9780198945987

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Phobia and American Literature, 1705–1937. A Therapeutic History

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Author

Don James McLaughlin

Collection

Oxford Studies in American Literary History

Year

2025

Pages

272

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

24.00 x 16.50 x 2.00 cm

ISBN13

9780198945987

Phobia and American Literature, 1705–1937. A Therapeutic History

Don James Mclaughlin (Author) · Oxford University Press · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Phobia and American Literature, 1705–1937. A Therapeutic History"

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.

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. Across psychology''s early American and nineteenth-century varieties, phobia prompted a remarkable genealogy of thought in the Americas. Literary figures adapted conversations and debates happening among physicians to popular forms, such as sermons, essays, satire, novels, short stories, and creative ventures in the social sciences. Through this fusion of medical and literary activity, concentrated in the cities of Boston, Philadelphia, and New York, phobia''s analysis became a foundational locus for the development of a therapeutic imaginary at the heart of American liberalism. More precisely, phobia''s analysis became central to a discourse that regarded public mental health as an indispensable factor in the recognition of inalienable rights and civil liberties. By recovering the discursive contingencies that enabled this tradition, McLaughlin illuminates new connections between towering thinkers, among them Cotton Mather, John Adams, Benjamin Rush, Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., William James, and Zora Neale Hurston. Following these lines of influence and debate, emphasis is placed on the incisive care such figures brought to bear on phobia''s etymological development as a locus of psychological inquiry.