The Age of Anxiety

by Sarah Dunant

As we inch closer to a dark new millenium, anxieties rise. The sense of progress and promise that prevailed so powerfully in the 1960s has been replaced by a nervous pessimism, centering chiefly around uncertain realities - economic, political, environmental. This book takes this for granted and touches upon it, but its focus is the analysis of the anxiety its nature, sources, substance, effects, and even cure.

Genres: Nonfiction

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Sarah Dunant studied history at Newnham College, Cambridge from where she went on to become a writer, broadcaster, teacher and critic.

She is an accredited lecturer with The Arts Society, lecturing on Italian history and Renaissance art, has taught Renaissance studies at Washington University, St. Louis and creative writing at University of Oxford Brookes, from where she was awarded an honorary doctorate for her services to higher education and literature.

Her books have been translated into 30 different languages.

Abridged from Ms Dunant's website.