The Routledge History of Loneliness

ISBN-13: 9780367355081 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 544 str.

Opis

The Routledge History of Loneliness takes a multidisciplinary approach to the history of a modern emotion, exploring its form and development across cultures from the seventeenth century to the present.

Spis treści

History of Loneliness: Introduction.  Part 1: Representing Loneliness  1. The Origins of ‘Loneliness’, the Oxford English Dictionary, and Sir Philip Sidney’s The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (1590)  2. Polite Loneliness: the Problem Sociability of Spinsters in the Long Eighteenth Century  3. Gender and Loneliness in Business: A Milliner and Her Agent in Eighteenth-Century Southern Europe  4. "My solitary & retired life": Queen Charlotte’s Solitude(s)  5. "I feel as if part of [my]self was torn from me:" Entrepreneurship, Absence, and Loneliness in Nineteenth-Century England  6. David Hume and the Disease of the Learned: Melancholy, Loneliness, and Philosophy  7. Falling In and Out of Place: The Errant Status of Solitude in Early Modern Europe  8. ‘Here in my loneliness I suffer’ – Illness, Isolation and Loneliness in the Diaries of Kirsti Teräsvuori  9. Time, Space and Loneliness in Bengali and Marathi Poetry  10. In Solitary Pursuit: Loneliness and the Quest for Love in Modern Britain  11. Loneliness as Crisis in Britain after 1950: Temporality, Modernity and the Historical Gaze  Part 2: Households, Families and Communities  12. Loneliness and Food in Early Modern England  13. ‘Disengagement from all Creaturs’: Exploring Loneliness in Early Modern English Cloisters  14. Ageing and Loneliness in England, c.1500-1800  15. Loneliness, Love and the Longing for Health: Mary Graham’s Consumption  16. Loneliness and Contested Communities in Mary Prince’s Slave Narrative: The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, Related by Herself (1831)  17. Solitude in Early Nineteenth-Century German-Speaking Europe  18. ‘As an Only Child I Must Have Been Lonely Though I Was Not Aware of it at the Time’: Only Children’s Reflections on the Experience of Loneliness in Britain, c. 1850-1950  19. Lonely in a Crowd: The Transformative Effect of School Culture in Schoolgirl and College Fiction  20. ‘A Purer Form of Loneliness’: Loneliness and the Search for Community amongst Gay and Bisexual Men in Scotland, 1940–1980  21. Loneliness as Social Critique: Disregard and the Limits of Care in Twenty-First Century Japan  Part 3: Distance, Place and Displacement  22. Loneliness and Sociability in Maritime and Colonial Space: A Comparative Intersectional Analysis of the Journals of Lt Ralph Clark and Dr Joseph Arnold  23. The Loneliness of Leadership: Royal Naval Officers in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars  24. ‘Small uneasinesses & petty fears’: Life-cycle, Masculinity and Loneliness  25. Lonely Places in Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century Scottish Balladry  26. Navigating ‘loneliness’ in the Reformed Lunatic Asylum: Britain, c.1800–1860  27. ‘There is a trace of you in the air of that room’ – Practices of Coping with Separation from a Friend in Late Nineteenth-Century Finland  28. ‘One of My Own Kind': Jessie Currie’s Experience of Loneliness in British Central Africa, 1891–1894  29. Loneliness, the Love Letter, and the Performance of Romance during Wartime Separation, 1939–1945  30. Voices from Lost Homelands: Loss, Longing and Loneliness  31. ‘We are still alive’: Refugees and Loneliness