{"product_id":"the-uses-of-phobia-isbn-9781444333848","title":"The Uses of Phobia","description":"The essays brought together in this book understand phobia not as a pathology, but as a versatile moral, political, and aesthetic resource – and one with a history. They demonstrate that enquiry into strong feelings of aversion has enabled writers and film-makers to say and show things they could not otherwise have said or shown; and in this way to get profoundly and provocatively to grips with the modern condition.  \u003cul type=\"disc\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eMakes extensive reference to original readings of a wide range of literary texts and films, from the 1850s to the present\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePlaces a strong emphasis on the value phobia has held, in particular, for women activists, writers, and film-makers\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscusses a range of writers and film-makers from Dickens, Thackeray, and George Eliot through Hardy, Joyce, Ford and Woolf; from Jean Renoir through Hitchcock and Truffaut to Margarethe von Trotta and Pedro Almodóvar\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIntervention in key debates in cultural theory and cultural history\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Introduction.  \u003cp\u003eChapter 1. Household Clearances in Victorian Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2. The Invention of Agoraphobia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3. Naturalism’s Phobic Picturesque.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4. Feminist Phobia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5. Modernist Toilette.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6. British First World War Combat Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7. Ford against Joyce and Lewis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 8. Hitchcock’s Modernism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 9. Phoning It In.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 10. Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eDavid Trotter\u003c\/b\u003e is King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge. He was co-founder of the Cambridge Screen Media Group, and has published extensively on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American literature.  The essays brought together in this book understand phobia not as a pathology, but as a versatile moral, political, and aesthetic resource – and one with a history. They demonstrate that enquiry into strong feelings of aversion has enabled writers and film-makers to say and show things they could not otherwise have said or shown; and in this way to get profoundly and provocatively to grips with the modern condition.  \u003cp\u003eThe essays are arranged in such a way as to chart phobia's unfolding as a resource in literature and film since 1850. They pose the question ‘What does phobia know?’ in relation to a range of writers and film-makers: from Dickens, Thackeray, and George Eliot through Hardy, Zola, Joyce, Ford, Mansfield, and Woolf to Tony Harrison and Buchi Emecheta; from Jean Renoir through Hitchcock, Wyler, Kurosawa, and Truffaut to Margarethe von Trotta, Pedro Almodóvar, and Lynne Ramsay. They take issue in particular with the pre-eminent status the concept of trauma has recently acquired in cultural theory and cultural history. In so doing contribute to and re-shape the current preoccupation with ordinariness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990361981157,"sku":"NP9781444333848","price":37.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781444333848.jpg?v=1761787514","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-uses-of-phobia-isbn-9781444333848","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}