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Shrinking violets : the secret life of shyness
- Title
- Shrinking violets : the secret life of shyness / Joe Moran.
- Author
- Moran, Joe, 1970-
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017.
- ©2016
- ©2017
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Details
- Description
- 272 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- Shyness is a pervasive human trait: even most extroverts know what it is like to stand tongue-tied at the fringe of an unfamiliar group or flush with embarrassment at being the unwelcome center of attention. Yet the cultural history of shyness has remained largely unwritten - until now. Wiuth incisiveness, passion, and humor, Joe Moran offers an eclectic and original exploration of what it means to be a "shrinking violet." Along the way, he provides a collective biography of shyness through portraits of such shy individual as Charles Darwin, Charles Schulz, Garrison Keillor, and Agatha Christie, among many others. In their stories, often both heartbreaking and inspiring, and through the myriad ways scientists and thinkers have tried to explain and "cure" shyness, Moran finds hope. To be shy, he decides, is not simply a burden; it is also a gift, a different way of seeing the world that can be both enriching and inspiring. -- from dust jacket.
- Alternative Title
- Secret life of shyness
- Subjects
- Note
- "First published in the English language in a different form by Profile Books."--Title page verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-254) and index.
- Contents
- A tentative history -- This odd state of mind -- How embarrassing -- Tongue-tied -- Stage fright -- Shy art -- The war against shyness -- The new ice age.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-1569
- ISBN
- 9780300222821
- 0300222823
- LCCN
- 2016948565
- OCLC
- 953985620
- Author
- Moran, Joe, 1970- author.
- Title
- Shrinking violets : the secret life of shyness / Joe Moran.
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-254) and index.
- Local Note
- AUTH: LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES U. CULTURAL HISTORY OF SHYNESS. PUB. ALSO IN UK BY PROFILE BOOKS.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-1569