Shrinking Violets: The Secret Life of Shyness

Moran, Joe Joe Moran,

ISBN 10: 0300222823 / ISBN 13: 9780300222821

Published by Yale University Press -, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shrinking Violets: The Secret Life of Shyness
• Publisher: Yale University Press -
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300222823
• ISBN 13: 9780300222821
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

A deeply perceptive and beautifully written cultural history of shyness, from one of our most astute observers of the everyday

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. And yet the cultural history of shyness has remained largely unwritten—until now.
 
With 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 individuals as Charles Darwin, Charles Schulz, Glenn Gould, 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.

About the Author

Joe Moran is professor of English and cultural history at Liverpool John Moores University. His previous books include On Roads: A Hidden History, which was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.