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Article: American Nervousness: 1903, An Anecdotal History.
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- Journal of Social History
- Article date:
- June 22, 1993
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Tom Lutz has written a thoughtful and theoretically sophisticated book about the discourse concerning neurasthenia, a psychological disorder that apparently afflicted large numbers of bourgeois and elite people in turn-of-the-century America. It was a discourse, he argues, that influenced the writings of diverse political, literary and academic personages. Lutz focuses his analysis on specific figures in the varied intellectual landscapes of turn-of-the-century America including Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Dreiser, William James, Hamlin Garland, Edgar Saltus, Frank Norris, William Dean Howells, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, Henry James ...
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