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 last third...

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