A Biography of Loneliness
The History of an Emotion
(Sprache: Englisch)
Despite 21st-century fears of a modern 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been neglected. This is the first book on the history of loneliness to be published in English.
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Despite 21st-century fears of a modern 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been neglected. This is the first book on the history of loneliness to be published in English.
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Despite 21st-century fears of a modern 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been neglected. This is the first book on the history of loneliness to be published in English.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „A Biography of Loneliness “
Acknowledgements; Preface: No (Wo)man is an island; Introduction: Loneliness as a 'modern epidemic'; 1 When 'oneliness' became loneliness: the birth of a modern emotion; 2 A 'disease of the blood'? The chronic loneliness of Sylvia Plath; 3 Loneliness and lack: romantic love, from Wuthering Heights to Twilight; 4 Widowhood and loss: from Thomas Turner to the Widow of Windsor; 5 Instaglum? Social media and the making of online community; 6 A 'ticking timebomb'? Rethinking loneliness in old age; 7 Roofless and rootless: no place to call 'home'; 8 Feeding the hunger. Materiality and the neglected lonely body; 9 Lonely clouds and empty vessels. When loneliness is a gift; Conclusion: reframing loneliness in a neoliberal age; Further reading; Appendix
Autoren-Porträt von Fay Bound Alberti
Dr Fay Bound Alberti is a writer and cultural historian. She has taught at UK universities, including Manchester, Lancaster, Queen Mary, UCL and York, and researches the histories of gender, emotion, health, and medicine. Her books include Matters of the Heart: History, Medicine, and Emotion (2010), and This Mortal Coil: The Human Body in History and Culture (2016). Fay is a Foundation Future Leader Fellow at the Foundation for Science and Technology, a Reader in History and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of York, UK. Fay is currently writing a book on the history of face transplants.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Fay Bound Alberti
- 2021, 320 Seiten, Maße: 13,5 x 21,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198811357
- ISBN-13: 9780198811350
- Erscheinungsdatum: 12.02.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
In addition to Alberti's sharp political analysis, one of the most powerful themes in her book is how varied loneliness is, how embedded it is in our lives, how extensively it evades generalisation. Maybe loneliness is a 21st-century epidemic, a modern illness requiring an urgent response, but its also so much more than that. Sophie McBain, The New Statesman
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