From: Journal of Social History | Date: June 22, 1993| Author: Rose, Sonya O. | Copyright information

Tom Lutz has written a thoughtful and theoretically sophisticated book about the discourse concerning neurasthenia, a psychological disorder that apparently afflicted large numbers of bourgeois and elite people in turn-of-the-century America. It was a discourse, he argues, that influenced the writings of diverse political, literary and academic personages. Lutz focuses his analysis on specific figures in the varied intellectual landscapes of turn-of-the-century America including Theo...