A Biography of Loneliness

The History of an Emotion

AvFay Bound Alberti

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-09-12
Mått:142 x 225 x 29 mm
Vikt:434 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198811343

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Fay Bound Alberti is a Reader in History and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of York. She is a TED speaker and has published widely on medicine, the body, gender and emotion in books and scholarly articles as well as in the media. She has taught at universities around the UK including UCL, Lancaster, Manchester, and York.

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A compassionate, wide-ranging study.

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AcknowledgementsPreface: No (Wo)man is an islandIntroduction: Loneliness as a 'modern epidemic'1: When 'oneliness' became loneliness: the birth of a modern emotion2: A 'disease of the blood'? The chronic loneliness of Sylvia Plath3: Loneliness and lack: romantic love, from Wuthering Heights to Twilight4: Widowhood and loss: from Thomas Turner to the Widow of Windsor5: Instaglum? Social media and the making of online community6: A 'ticking timebomb'? Rethinking loneliness in old age7: Roofless and rootless: no place to call 'home'8: Feeding the hunger. Materiality and the neglected lonely body9: Lonely clouds and empty vessels. When loneliness is a giftConclusion: reframing loneliness in a neoliberal ageFurther readingAppendix