Phobia and American Literature, 1705–1937
A Therapeutic History
Series: Oxford Studies in American Literary History;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 21 August 2025
- ISBN 9780198945987
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 240x165x20 mm
- Weight 599 g
- Language English 639
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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.
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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.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction Phobia's Metaphor: The Therapeutic Imagination in American Liberalism
The Looking Glass of Eisoptrophobia: Colonial Representation and Helmontian Hydrotherapy in Cotton Mather and John Adams
Hydrophobia's Doppelgänger: Spurious Rabies and Spontaneous Nosology at the Dawn of Phobia's Versatility
Cauterizing Colorphobia: Public Health Print Culture in Mary Hayden Pike, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frederick Douglass
Before Homophobia: Konträre Sexualempfindung and Early Conversion Therapy in Oliver Wendell Holmes , Sr.'s A Mortal Antipathy
Monophobia's Pluralism: Deviant Expression in William, Henry, and Alice James
The Dirt on Mysophobia: Micro-Contaminations in Mark Twai's Three Thousand Years among the Microbes and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
Epilogue: Allegories of Phagophobia
