Repressed Spaces: The Poetics of Agoraphobia by Paul Carter

Repressed Spaces: The Poetics of Agoraphobia

Paul Carter

224 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

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In Repressed Spaces Paul Carter tours the cultural history of agoraphobia, the fear of open space. Its symptoms were first described in The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) by Robert Burton, the British scholar and writer, although it wasn’t until 187...

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