The first interdisciplinary history of vertigo, this book covers medical accounts from antiquity to the present, testimonies of lived experience, and literary and cultural representations of vertigo.
Balanced. Stable. Grounded. Levelheaded. Even-keeled. There is a long list of words that demonstrate how we attach extraordinary value to a metaphorical sense of balance. From Alfred Hitchcock's cinema, to Salvador Dalì's art, to the writings of Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bishop - authors and artists have repeatedly used their work to invoke vertigo, or the loss of balance, as a metaphor for trauma, disorientation, even existential crisis. But what about those of us who have to live with a vertigo that is all-too real? Based on more than thirty in-depth interviews with people who live with balance disorders, this book explores the connections between vertigo-as-metaphor and vertigo-as-lived experience.
| ISBN: | 9781350523517 |
| Publication date: | 11th December 2025 |
| Author: | Anindya Raychaudhuri |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 248 pages |
| Series: | Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: from c 2000 Film history, theory or criticism Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |
The first interdisciplinary history of vertigo, this book covers medical accounts from antiquity to the present, testimonies of lived experience, and literary and cultural representations of vertigo.
Balanced. Stable. Grounded. Levelheaded. Even-keeled. There is a long list of words that demonstrate how we attach extraordinary value to a metaphorical sense of balance. From Alfred Hitchcock's cinema, to Salvador Dalì's art, to the writings of Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bishop - authors and artists have repeatedly used their work to invoke vertigo, or the loss of balance, as a metaphor for trauma, disorientation, even existential crisis. But what about those of us who have to live with a vertigo that is all-too real? Based on more than thirty in-depth interviews with people who live with balance disorders, this book explores the connections between vertigo-as-metaphor and vertigo-as-lived experience.
A Cultural History of Vertigo features in the following genres: Literary studies: from c 2000, Film history, theory or criticism, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
A Cultural History of Vertigo is available in Hardback
A Cultural History of Vertigo was written by Anindya Raychaudhuri and published by Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
A Cultural History of Vertigo has 248 pages
Yes it is part of Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities series
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