Stories
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Self-obsessing in the age of selfies
The tiny, joyful spark of a social media ‘like’ can lead to a damaging obsession. Find out how far people will go when their phone addiction gets the upper hand.
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Nymphomania and hypersexuality in women and men
The history of nymphomania is closely bound with society's views on women and their sexuality.
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The hidden history of homesickness
Gail Tolley delves into the history of homesickness and discovers that its rich past holds a clue to how we view the experience today.
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The evil eye and social anxiety
The ‘look’ of the evil eye is believed to bring bad luck, illness or even death. This ancient curse might be deliberate, inflicted with an envious glare, or it could be accidental, the result of undue attention or excessive praise.
Catalogue
- Books
Death and the future life in Victorian literature and theology / Michael Wheeler.
Wheeler, Michael, 1947-Date: 1990- Books
Disease and death in eighteenth-century literature and culture : fashioning the unfashionable / Allan Ingram, Leigh Wetherall Dickson, editors.
Date: [2016]- Books
Death and the mother from Dickens to Freud : Victorian fiction and the anxiety of origins / Carolyn Dever.
Dever, Carolyn.Date: 1998- Books
Living death in medieval French and English literature / Jane Gilbert.
Gilbert, Jane, 1964-Date: 2011- Books
Death in America / Philippe Ariès[and others] ; edited, with an introduction by David E. Stannard.
Date: 1975, ©1974