Shrinking violets : the secret life of shyness / Joe Moran.
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 272 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780300222821
- 0300222823
- Secret life of shyness
- BF575.B3 M67 2017
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"First published in the English language in a different form by Profile Books."--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-254) and index.
A tentative history -- This odd state of mind -- How embarrassing -- Tongue-tied -- Stage fright -- Shy art -- The war against shyness -- The new ice age.
A deeply perceptive and beautifully written cultural history of shyness, from one of our most astute observers of the everyday.
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