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Anxious Timesdemonstrates that doctors and ordinary citizens were just as concerned about the effects of modern technology in the nineteenth century as people are today, and these earlier fears can be revealing. The authors take an original approach to the relationship between technological growth and public and medical perceptions of nervousness, physical debilitation, and mental illness by examining hidden, unexpected responses to overstimulation and bringing valuable new evidence to light. --Laura Otis, Emory University

Anxious Timesdemonstrates that doctors and ordinary citizens were just as concerned about the effects of modern technology in the nineteenth century as people are today, and these earlier fears can be revealing. The authors take an original approach to the relationship between technological growth and public and medical perceptions of nervousness, physical debilitation, and mental illness by examining hidden, unexpected responses to overstimulation and bringing valuable new evidence to light. --Laura Otis, Emory University

Anxious Timesdemonstrates that doctors and ordinary citizens were just as concerned about the effects of modern technology in the nineteenth century as people are today, and these earlier fears can be revealing. The authors take an original approach to the relationship between technological growth and public and medical perceptions of nervousness, physical debilitation, and mental illness by examining hidden, unexpected responses to overstimulation and bringing valuable new evidence to light. --Laura Otis, Emory University

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Amelia Bonea is a research fellow at the Centre for Transcultural Studies, University of Heidelberg. Melissa Dickson is a lecturer in Victorian literature at the University of Birmingham. Sally Shuttleworth is professor of English literature at the University of Oxford. Jennifer Wallis is a teaching fellow in medical humanities at Imperial College London.

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