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A dazzling history of that most slippery of emotions: nostalgia, by an acclaimed young historian.

This is the first history of cancer in nineteenth-century Britain. It demonstrates that the nineteenth century saw cancer acquire the unique emotional, symbolic, and politicized status it maintains today.

Work in all its guises is a fundamental part of the human experience, and yet it is a setting where emotions rarely take centre stage. This edited collection interrogates the troubled relationship between emotion and work to shed light on the feelings and meanings of both paid and unpaid labour from the late 19th to the 21st century. Central to this book is a reappraisal of 'emotional labour', now associated with the household and 'life adm...

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Emotionally detached and empathetic, elite, esoteric, and plagued by bureaucracy, robust, resilient, but suffering under unique emotional pressures. It is precisely these contradictions that have made the surgical stereotype so enduring.' Brilliant, volatile, and almost invariably male, the surgical stereotype is a widespread and instantly recognisable figure. In Cold, hard steel, Agnes Arnold-Forster sets out to anatomise this stereotype, o...

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This is the first history of cancer in nineteenth-century Britain. It demonstrates that the nineteenth century saw cancer acquire the unique emotional, symbolic, and politicized status it maintains today.