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This project investigates the historical context of stress and information overload in the 19th century, exploring how these issues were reflected in literature and medicine. It aims to connect past and present understandings of mental strain and societal pressures.
In our current ‘Information Age’ we suffer as never before, it is claimed, from the stresses of an overload of information, and the speed of global networks.
The Victorians diagnosed similar problems in the nineteenth century.
The medic James Crichton Browne spoke in 1860 of the ‘velocity of thought and action’ now required, and of the stresses imposed on the brain forced to process in a month more information ‘than was required of our grandfathers in the course of a lifetime’.
This project will…
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