Bøker av Laura Salisbury

As people of the modern era were singularly prone to nervous disorders, the nervous system became a model for describing political and social organization. This volume untangles the mutual dependencies of scientific neurology and the cultural attitudes of the period 1800-1950, exploring how and why modernity was a fundamentally nervous state.

Introduces, debates and extends the arguments surrounding the critical relevance of the terms 'late modernism' and 'postmodernism' for describing cultural products and intellectual contexts from the 1930s to the present.