Shrinking Violets: The Secret Life of Shyness
- Submitting institution
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Liverpool John Moores University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 357
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Profile Books
- ISBN
- 9781781252642
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Shrinking Violets is a 95,000-word, single-authored monograph. It is a wide-ranging study that discusses examples of shyness from antiquity to the present day. Its methodology incorporates personal memoir, philosophical reflection, biography, psychology, sociology, anthropology, cultural history and literary criticism. Alongside a discussion of shyness it explores a series of cognate topics: social phobia, introversion, shame, embarrassment, autism, stammering and stage fright. Aimed at both an academic and non-academic audience, it feeds into wider research in the medical humanities and the history of emotions. It is the product of several years of focused research.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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