Phobia and American literature, 1705-1937 : a therapeutic history /

"Phobia and American Literature recovers a two-century history of phobia as a medical, political, and aesthetic concept from the late colonial period to the Harlem Renaissance. Scholars have presumed that phobia's diagnosis first gathered momentum with the coinage of agoraphobia in the las...

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Main Author:	McLaughlin, Don James (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Series:	Oxford studies in American literary history.
Subjects:	American literature > History and criticism. Phobias in literature. Phobias in literature 1705-1937