A Biography of Loneliness
The History of an Emotion
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Date of Publication: 12 September 2019
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Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9780198811343 |
| ISBN10: | 0198811349 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 320 pages |
| Size: | 225x142x29 mm |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | Black and white images |
| 156 |
Category:
Sociology in general, methodology, handbooks
The Enlightenment, Romanticism, The Realist Age
Modernism, postmodernism
Cultural history
Cultural studies
Psychology theory
Sociology in general, methodology, handbooks (charity campaign)
The Enlightenment, Romanticism, The Realist Age (charity campaign)
Modernism, postmodernism (charity campaign)
Cultural history (charity campaign)
Cultural studies (charity campaign)
Psychology theory (charity campaign)
Short description:
Despite 21st-century fears of an 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been neglected. This is the first book on the history of loneliness to be published in English.
Long description:
Despite 21st-century fears of an 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A Biography of Loneliness offers a radically new interpretation of loneliness as an emotional language and experience. Using letters and diaries, philosophical tracts, political discussions, and medical literature from the eighteenth century to the present, historian of the emotions Fay Bound Alberti argues that loneliness is not an ahistorical, universal phenomenon. It is, in fact, a modern emotion: before 1800, its language did not exist. And where loneliness is identified, it is not always bad, but a complex emotional state that differs according to class, gender, ethnicity and experience.
Looking at informative case studies such as Sylvia Plath, Queen Victoria, and Virginia Woolf, A Biography of Loneliness charts the emergence of loneliness as a modern and embodied emotional state.
A compassionate, wide-ranging study.
Looking at informative case studies such as Sylvia Plath, Queen Victoria, and Virginia Woolf, A Biography of Loneliness charts the emergence of loneliness as a modern and embodied emotional state.
A compassionate, wide-ranging study.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Preface: No (Wo)man is an island
Introduction: Loneliness as a 'modern epidemic'
When 'oneliness' became loneliness: the birth of a modern emotion
A 'disease of the blood'? The chronic loneliness of Sylvia Plath
Loneliness and lack: romantic love, from Wuthering Heights to Twilight
Widowhood and loss: from Thomas Turner to the Widow of Windsor
Instaglum? Social media and the making of online community
A 'ticking timebomb'? Rethinking loneliness in old age
Roofless and rootless: no place to call 'home'
Feeding the hunger. Materiality and the neglected lonely body
Lonely clouds and empty vessels. When loneliness is a gift
Conclusion: reframing loneliness in a neoliberal age
Further reading
Appendix
Preface: No (Wo)man is an island
Introduction: Loneliness as a 'modern epidemic'
When 'oneliness' became loneliness: the birth of a modern emotion
A 'disease of the blood'? The chronic loneliness of Sylvia Plath
Loneliness and lack: romantic love, from Wuthering Heights to Twilight
Widowhood and loss: from Thomas Turner to the Widow of Windsor
Instaglum? Social media and the making of online community
A 'ticking timebomb'? Rethinking loneliness in old age
Roofless and rootless: no place to call 'home'
Feeding the hunger. Materiality and the neglected lonely body
Lonely clouds and empty vessels. When loneliness is a gift
Conclusion: reframing loneliness in a neoliberal age
Further reading
Appendix
