{"product_id":"the-uses-of-phobia-essays-on-literature-and-film-paperback-softback-9781444333848","title":"The Uses of Phobia; Essays on Literature and Film (Paperback \/ softback) 9781444333848","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Uses of Phobia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEssays on Literature and Film\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Trotter (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781444333848, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 11 June 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e192 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.6 x 14.7 x 1 cm, 0.318 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe 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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction.  \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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Language: reference \u0026amp; general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Language: reference \u0026amp; general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Language:%20reference%20\u0026amp;%20general%20%5BCB%5D%22\"\u003eCB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52441774326040,"sku":"9781444333848","price":19.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781444333848.jpg?v=1785024338","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-uses-of-phobia-essays-on-literature-and-film-paperback-softback-9781444333848","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}