Building upon his much-praised BBC Radio 4 series ‘21st Century Mythologies’, Peter Conrad examines the enduring place of myth in contemporary culture and society.
This is a new and expanded edition of a classic case-study in the medicalization of ADHD. In this revised... Læs mere
A kaleidoscopic investigation of Dickens’s superhuman imagination.
In his book Imagining America (originally published in 1980), Peter Conrad shows how the English literary imagination over the course of a century devised for itself a contradictory series of ideal or alarming Americas which it then sets out to actualize.
Focusing on the nature of deviance, this book investigates the origins and contemporary consequences of the medicalization of deviance. It examines... Læs mere