{"product_id":"a-cultural-history-of-vertigo-anindya-raychaudhuri-9781350523517","title":"A Cultural History of Vertigo: Unbalanced","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eBalanced. 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 Dalí'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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anindya Raychaudhuri\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350523518\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350523517\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/11\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d","brand":"Anindya Raychaudhuri","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47931040465151,"sku":"9781350523517","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0a3af135-9600-418b-87ef-548ed920ed7b.jpg?v=1766346035","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-cultural-history-of-vertigo-anindya-raychaudhuri-9781350523517","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}