| Contents |
Cover; A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion; Copyright; Dedication; PREFACE: No (Wo)man Is an Island; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; INTRODUCTION: Loneliness as a 'Modern Epidemic'; A Biography of Loneliness; Embodied Loneliness; CHAPTER 1: WHEN 'ONELINESS' BECAME LONELINESS: The birth of a modern emotion; The Invention of Lonelivness; The Importance of Solitude; Solitude, Gender, and Class; Solitude and Health; The Making of Modern Loneliness; Loneliness as a Product of Historical Forces; CHAPTER 2: A 'DISEASE OF THE BLOOD'?: The chronic loneliness of Sylvia Plath |
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The Loneliness of Childhood'I AM A SMITH GIRL NOW'; Loneliness and the Suicidal Urge; The Need for a Romantic Other; The Isolating Nature of Mental Illness; CHAPTER 3: LONELINESS AND LACK: Romantic love, from Wuthering Heights to Twilight; The 'Soulmate' as a Romantic Ideal; Love and the Soul in Fiction: The Case of Wuthering Heights; Love Conquers All, Even Werewolves and Vampires; CHAPTER 4: WIDOW(ER)HOOD AND LOSS: From Thomas Turner to the Widow of Windsor; Loneliness and Nostalgia; Widow(er)hood as a Particular Form of Loss; The Case of Thomas Turner; The Oneliness of Thomas Turner |
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The Widow of Windsor; The Loneliness of Loss; CHAPTER 5: INSTAGLUM?: Social media and the making of online community; The Rise and Emotional Impact of Social Media; Social Media as Minefield or a Mirror?; Social Media and the Meanings of Community; Myths of Intimacy; CHAPTER 6: A 'TICKING TIMEBOMB'?: Rethinking loneliness in old age; The UK's 'Ticking Timebomb'; The Vulnerable Old and the Problem of 'Unmet Need'; Ageing and Neoliberalism; or When Did Old Age Become a Liability?; Ageing in History; The Complexities of Loneliness Among the Elderly; Elderly Futures |
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CHAPTER 7: ROOFLESS AND ROOTLESS: No place to call 'home'; Rooflessness: Homelessness as a Recent Historical Problem; Who Are the Homeless?; The Significance of 'Home' and Its Lack; Refugees and Loneliness; CHAPTER 8: FEEDING THE HUNGER: Materiality and the lonely body; Loneliness and the Material World; Loneliness and the Body; Lonely Bodies; Feeding the 'Hunger'; Speaking With and Through the Body; CHAPTER 9: LONELY CLOUDS AND EMPTY VESSELS: When loneliness is a gift; The Lonely Romantics; Loneliness and the Modern Project; CONCLUSION: Reframing loneliness in a neoliberal age |
| Abstract |
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. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Bound Alberti, Fay. A Biography of Loneliness : The History of an Emotion. Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, ©2019 9780198811343 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0192539345 |
| ISBN | 9780192539342 (electronic bk.) |
