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A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion
Contributor(s): Bound Alberti, Fay (Author)

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ISBN: 0198811349     ISBN-13: 9780198811343
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE: $28.49  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Modern - 21st Century
- Psychology | History
- Philosophy | Language
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.3" W x 8.6" L (0.95 lbs) 320 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 21st Century
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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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