Repressed Spaces: The Poetics of Agoraphobia

by Paul Carter

In Repressed Spaces Paul Carter tours the cultural history of agoraphobia, the fear of open space. Its symptoms were first described in The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) by Robert Burton, the British scholar and writer, although it wasn't until 1871 that Carl Otto Westphal coined the term to describe several of his patients who experienced severe anxiety when walking through streets or squares. There have been many attempts to explain...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861891288
• ISBN13: 9781861891280
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 8.0"