Phobia and American Literature, 1705-1937

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. ...