Julian Stern is Professor of Education and Religion at Bishop Grosseteste University, UK. He is President of ISRS: the International Society for Research on Solitude.

Julian Stern is a leading author, editor, and the most forceful driver on a very original interdisciplinary therapeutic approach in addressing the current ravages of our global pandemic of human loneliness. He is the foremost scholar in this refreshing new field as he marshals an international group of authorities breaking fresh new ground on the dynamics of silence, solitude, and loneliness.

• Series Editors’ ForewordIntroduction: Creativity and Solitude in History1. Solitudes of Exile2. Ecstasy and Enstasy, Successful and Failed3. The [Romantic] Artist as Solitary4. Alone in Nature5. Alienation and its Emotions6. Loneliness and the Rejected Self7. Modernism to Postmodernism and the Recovered Self8. Conclusion: New Solitudes for OldReferencesIndex

Julian Stern is Professor of Education and Religion at Bishop Grosseteste University, UK. He is President of ISRS: the International Society for Research on Solitude.

Julian Stern is a leading author, editor, and the most forceful driver on a very original interdisciplinary therapeutic approach in addressing the current ravages of our global pandemic of human loneliness. He is the foremost scholar in this refreshing new field as he marshals an international group of authorities breaking fresh new ground on the dynamics of silence, solitude, and loneliness.

• Series Editors’ ForewordIntroduction: Creativity and Solitude in History1. Solitudes of Exile2. Ecstasy and Enstasy, Successful and Failed3. The [Romantic] Artist as Solitary4. Alone in Nature5. Alienation and its Emotions6. Loneliness and the Rejected Self7. Modernism to Postmodernism and the Recovered Self8. Conclusion: New Solitudes for OldReferencesIndex

Julian Stern is Professor of Education and Religion at Bishop Grosseteste University, UK. He is President of ISRS: the International Society for Research on Solitude.

Julian Stern is a leading author, editor, and the most forceful driver on a very original interdisciplinary therapeutic approach in addressing the current ravages of our global pandemic of human loneliness. He is the foremost scholar in this refreshing new field as he marshals an international group of authorities breaking fresh new ground on the dynamics of silence, solitude, and loneliness.

• Series Editors’ ForewordIntroduction: Creativity and Solitude in History1. Solitudes of Exile2. Ecstasy and Enstasy, Successful and Failed3. The [Romantic] Artist as Solitary4. Alone in Nature5. Alienation and its Emotions6. Loneliness and the Rejected Self7. Modernism to Postmodernism and the Recovered Self8. Conclusion: New Solitudes for OldReferencesIndex