The Routledge History of Loneliness (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Barclay, Katie; Simonton, Deborah; Chalus, Elaine

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000839203
• Artikelnr.: 67037228

Autorenporträt

Katie Barclay is Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions and Head of Historical and Classical Studies, University of Adelaide. She writes widely on the history of emotions, gender and family life. Elaine Chalus is Professor of British History at the University of Liverpool. She writes widely on 18th-century women, gender and social and political culture. Deborah Simonton is Associate Professor Emerita at the University of Southern Denmark, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, author of A History of European Women's Work: Women in European Culture and Society and Sourcebook, and general editor of Routledge History Handbook on Gender and the Urban Experience and of Gender in the European Town.

Inhaltsangabe

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